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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
He didn't say Google's (Harmony's) API library was
inferior, he said "they'd
use an inferior, yet passable
virtual machine that could run Java
(Dalvik)."
AFAIK, Dalvik is superior to the JVM. It is more secure,
and
more efficient, whereas the JVM is as leaky as a sieve in
terms of
exploits. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 06:53 PM EDT |
Google really wanted most of Java SE for Android, not some Java ME stripped down
version. But, if Sun/Oracle made a deal such that it only cost a small fraction
of the phone price, their regular Java SE users would want a price break. On our
smaller configurations of our product, Java costs more than the CPU chip it runs
on. Luckily, the price doesn't go up to match the cost of an eight core Sandy
Bridge. It definitely makes one want to move to Open JDK to avoid the Oracle tax
just to get binaries compiled by Oracle.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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