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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by thu2111 on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:28AM (#24730225)
The standard GUI toolkit for Java SE at the time was Swing. That would never have been appropriate for mobile, but they'd have had to support it anyway. Also the Android team believed that HotSpot wouldn't work on heavily RAM constrained phones, hence Dalvik. Were they wrong? Doubt it.
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by pjmlp on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:21AM (#24730730)
HotSpot wasn't the only game in town for embedded, and Dalvik was much worse than what Nokia and Sony-Ericson had on their own (not HotSpot based) implementations.

So much that they eventually rebooted the whole thing with ART.

Apparently Swing was appropriate for SavaJE, go figure.

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