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Dalvik and JIT

Posted Aug 18, 2010 9:34 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: GNU Java compiler by ncm
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle

That's interesting, because last time I looked (see the presentation slides), Dalvik didn't have a JIT compiler.

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Dalvik and JIT

Posted Aug 18, 2010 11:07 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Acording to Wikipedia, as of Android 2.2 it does.

Dalvik and JIT

Posted Aug 18, 2010 14:28 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Ah. Thanks. That's one patent which might be somewhat relevant, then, though I suspect there's a lot of prior art there. Forth systems, for instance, do something like this since the 1970s.