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scythe
on Nov 21, 2009
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Google working on JIT compiler for Android
This is awesome, but it also feels like something that should have been there from the beginning.
sketerpot
on Nov 21, 2009
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Maybe, but there's something to be said for releasing an imperfect version quickly and improving from there.
cliff
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They very much believed that their optimized interpreter would be faster and better than JITing. And it is optimized -- they took into account cache locality, ARM instruction size, etc. You can read the design doc. They spent a lot of time on it.
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