Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones
by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2010 @09:25AM
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He is wrong.
While ARM is a good target, there are many variations, with different feature-sets, added instructions and JVM acceleration that make for really different targets (much like x86 and amd64) that he would have to upload and test independently. And I am talking about ARM, which is only the dominant mobile platform (and that wasn't dominant a couple tears ago). One may also consider x86 (lpia, maybe) and their own endless SSE variations.
While ARM is a good target, there are many variations, with different feature-sets, added instructions and JVM acceleration that make for really different targets (much like x86 and amd64) that he would have to upload and test independently. And I am talking about ARM, which is only the dominant mobile platform (and that wasn't dominant a couple tears ago). One may also consider x86 (lpia, maybe) and their own endless SSE variations.