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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by squarefoot on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:00PM (#22249957)
Agreed, and ironically the most widely used Java platform (Android), despite its VM optimizations, is the one which would benefit the most from running only native code.

I mean, those 1GB RAM 7 years old slow as molasses phones getting dust into drawers or being littered into landfills would scream if they didn't have to run everything behind a VM.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by yc12340 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:19PM (#22253170)
Make no mistake — Android isn't memory hungry because of Java alone. Android 4 used to comfortably fit in 1Gb of RAM, but Android 10 no longer can run on such devices. Both old and new versions use JVM, but newer Android has a lot of "helpful" system services, such as "Usage Statistics" service [1] and "Autofill Servide" [2].

Google's spyware is becoming more invasive and thus more memory-hungry.

1: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/usage/Us...

2: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/auto...

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