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Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones by pkaler on Thursday August 26, 2010 @09:56PM (#1637794)
You don't need a VM to solve endian issues. This can be handled at the framework or library level. For example, the NSCoder class handles most of this for you in the OSX/iOS world. Conform to the NSCoding protocol and endian issues during serialization are handled for you.
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Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones by vetinari on Friday August 27, 2010 @07:26AM (#1638494)
Many apps and libraries are ported, not written from scratch. You may not have an option to "conform to the NSCoding protocol", because you already have existing code, written before Apple Era.
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