From wakelocks to a real solution

Posted Feb 19, 2009 21:28 UTC (Thu) by xyzzy (guest, #1984)
Parent article: From wakelocks to a real solution

Android apps all run under an "I can't believe it's not Java(tm)" VM, right? So surely apps-being-dumb issues could be solved in userspace at the VM level.

From wakelocks to a real solution

Posted Feb 21, 2009 18:14 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

They could, but I would guess the VM is not very smart either -- it does whatever userspace tells it to do. Solving the problem in the not-quite-Java VM would add complexity in a layer which (at least theoretically) is not involved in power management, just in secure execution.

Besides, there will be other native applications running on the G1, which (even if they under direct control of Goog... ahem, Android) must be written with power management in mind. It seems easier to just push power management to the kernel and let it do its thing.