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Re:Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android by nostrademons on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:49PM (#1600013)
On the flip side, how do you know you wouldn't run up against those limitations on a phone that used OpenJDK? I don't do much mobile dev, but I've had friends that did JavaME development, and they didn't seem to like it any more than Android. Dalvik was designed specifically because Sun's JVM performed poorly on memory-constrained devices.

In other words, your issues may be caused by mobile development, not by Android development.

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Re:Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android by gchpaco on Friday August 13, 2010 @01:39AM (#1600163)
The Sun JVM is a lot of things and got a lot better and a lot faster over time, but it is an astounding memory hog. Only thing I've ever seen that will (seriously) reserve 64 bits for a Boolean field on a 64-bit VM.
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Re:Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android by seldo on Friday August 13, 2010 @01:22AM (#1600142)
Given that Eric Schmidt is the former head of Java at Sun, it seems unlikely they'd have written their own JVM if they didn't have a good reason to do so. Also, JavaME is awful.
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