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This seems to paint the JIT as something that hurts performance instead of helps it, is that true on Android?
by jimmaswell 13y ago
This seems to paint the JIT as something that hurts performance instead of helps it, is that true on Android?
- edderly 13y agoIt relates to the behavior of the garbage collection scheme used by dalvik which is a mark and sweep approach. When the GC runs, that’s all the VM is doing. It’s pointed out that a generational garbage collector would be more efficient allocating memory presumably there is a trade off in terms of the overall memory footprint.