Dalvik runtime changes for those who might find it interesting: Dalvik VM: --------------- Concurrent garbage collector (target sub-3ms pauses) Adds further JIT (code-generation) optimizations Improved code verification StrictMode debugging, for identifying performance and memory issues
Core libraries: ------------------- Expanded I18N support (full worldwide encodings, more locales) Faster Formatter and number formatting. For example, float formatting is 2.5x faster. HTTP responses are gzipped by default. XML and JSON API response sizes may be reduced by 60% or more. New collections and utilities APIs Improved network APIs Improved file read and write controls Updated JDBC Updates from upstream projects: ---------------------------------------------- OpenSSL 1.0.0a BouncyCastle 1.45 ICU 4.4 zlib 1.2.5 also new Media Framework: New media framework fully replaces OpenCore, maintaining all previous codec/container support for encoding and decoding. Integrated support for the VP8 open video compression format and the WebM open container format Adds AAC encoding and AMR wideband encoding -- 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.
