> *** Plus this afterthought: Now that Android 3 is more similar to a full
> fledged operating system, wouldn't be possible to port a full OpenJDK on it?

> *** Plus this afterthought: Now that Android 3 is more similar to a full
> fledged operating system, wouldn't be possible to port a full OpenJDK on it?

It would still have to go though Dalvik, since there's no native
interface to the hardware the JVM could call directly. MonoDroid keeps
a Mono runtime and a Dalvik runtime running at the same time, using an
interoperability layer to map C# API's to Dalvik API's. Even if you
could succeed in having an OpenJDK instance becoming a client of a
Dalvik server, what exactly would you gain from that?

Though the Mono runtime has already been proven to outperform* a pre-
Gingerbread Dalvik, I'd remain somewhat skeptical that a full-fledged
JVM on my phone is a good idea.

/Casper

* http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html

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