Stoyan, It is not very polite to post messages to the public that have been sent to you in private.
Having said this, here are some answers as I see them: 1) Licensing: Android could not be released under the Apache 2 license if it was relying on Sun's Java byte code. As far as I understand, each manufacturer would potentially have to pay royalties to Sun if they wanted to ship the Java VM on their mobile phones. Your Android phone would be more expensive by that amount. 2) You have not mentioned the advantages of Dalvik that are listed on the wikipedia link you have posted: "An uncompressed .dex file is typically a few percent smaller in size than a compressed .jar (Java Archive) derived from the same .class files.". And: "Java VMs [..] are stack machines, the Dalvik VM is a register-based architecture." As far as I understand, ARM architecture is also register-based. So, Dalvik is much closer to the ARM hardware than Java is in the first place. You can use your imagination to envision what this could mean in the long run. Peli On Mar 31, 11:18 pm, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > Dianne, > > I can't see why are you taking this personally. > FWIW, you, Android engineers, are the only people we're getting *any* > answers to all our non-development questions. > > Is it so hard to accept the fact that people can think that Google, > the company, is for example bad or deaf, but at the same time think > that some or many of its employees are great and responsive? > For me, Google is deaf. You, Romain, JBQ, David, etc. (I don't want to > miss someone, but will inevitably do so) are not. > > Now, that love is all around, do you have something to say about the > original subject? ;) > > Cheers > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
