-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 21:50 , RogerV wrote: > > There would be no dependence on VM technology with this approach > but the runtime, having sophisticated features such as garbage > collected memory management, could still be efficiently shared on a > relatively constrained device. Technically it could work - after all iPhone is going on with native code, but the iPhone is a single processor business. Android should constraint to a single processor too. Maybe it's possible, but I fear this is a very important point for the hw manufacturers. After all, Android differs from iPhone because hw and sw manufacturers aren't the same entity, and the VM guarantees a certain freedom to the former ones. I don't think they would be happy to be forced to use all the same processor, even in future (I must confess that I don't know how many different processors are currently used by the Android phones).
But would it be palatable to developers? I don't think so. Personally, I would drop any interest in mobile development if I was be forced to step back to native code. Of course, I'm not the community and perhaps, now that Android has gotten a huge momentum, it would be easier to move developers rather than it was 2 years ago, when a community of developers had to be created from scratch. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoUv8ACgkQeDweFqgUGxcFSwCeOlwD4aZjAYeoEl8zpwZzjA2j j44AnAycud6fSICnuojFVxrtZb1hz1wx =2PuE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
