On 21/02/2014 9:16 PM, Robert Redelmeier wrote:
Thanks you for the additional details. "precompiled" makes some sense
-- why waste all that time parsing ASCII? Dalvik would of course
have to be customized for the flavor of ARM it was installed on.

It's interesting how Java has become just another compiled language in
many cases these days.


Dalvik being a register-based VM also makes some sense for
ARMs with more registers. x86 has a blazing fast data L1
that reduces the stack penalty, often to zero. I wonder how
Dell implemented Dalvik on the Venue?

X86 also has lots of registers to spare these days (thanks to x64), so a
register based VM should be pretty blazing fast on one of those too.

Yousuf Khan