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Android App Bloat??

Android App Bloat??

Posted May 17, 2012 16:57 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Android App Bloat?? by ldo
Parent article: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich

Don't some of the package formats for Android preinstalled software include the byte-code AND the compiled code?


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Android App Bloat??

Posted May 17, 2012 22:30 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

I don’t understand what you mean. The byte-code is the compiled code.

Android App Bloat??

Posted May 17, 2012 23:49 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

Android version 2.2 (I think) introduced an optional JIT compiler which compiles the byte-code into machine-code.

I thought that the ODEX (Optimized DEX) format can contain a cached copy of the JIT-compiled machine code. I also believe that the ODEX format is commonly used for all applications which are included in a ROM, because each ROM is hardware specific anyway.

Android App Bloat??

Posted May 18, 2012 1:09 UTC (Fri) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

None of which is relevant to ordinary apps like you or I might write.

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