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Re:Swift Ported to Android by andrewjl on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:46PM (#11176672)
As of iOS 8 that's no longer the case. JSC JIT compilation can be used in native apps. (It's also used by WKWebView.)

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/JavaScriptCore

"JavaScriptCore is an optimizing virtual machine. JavaScriptCore consists of the following building blocks: lexer, parser, start-up interpreter (LLInt), baseline JIT, a low-latency optimizing JIT (DFG), and a high-throughput optimizing JIT (FTL)."

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Re:Swift Ported to Android by DerekL on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:54PM (#11178505)
Apps can use JavaScriptCore, and JavaScriptCore can use JIT, but these can't happen together, because third-party apps aren't permitted to execute writeable memory.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22281265/is-javascriptcor...

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Re:Swift Ported to Android by andrewjl on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:58PM (#11178529)
This is good to know. Looks like the only way to make use of JIT (by someone who isn't Apple) is to use a WKWebView to execute the JS.
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