Stoyan Damov wrote: > >> 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.". >> > > GIVE ME A BREAK. Oh, wait, with the 70 MB for apps perhaps that's > quite an achievement, right. > > Actually, this is more important than it sounds. .apk's can be mapped into memory directly, while .jar files have to be decompressed, so .jar's take quite a bit more room in RAM (and also the decompression overhead...) Making things smaller in RAM improves locality and thus performance.
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