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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by TheRealSteel on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:29PM (#26393656)
Isn't that basically what Android Runtime does?
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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by elihu on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:03PM (#26395300)
I don't know much about Android specifically. Is it still heavily Java-based?

There are a lot of universal-binary candidates both current and historical. Javascript, Java, SPirV, LLVM intermediate representation are some of the current ones. So, this isn't a new idea, it's just that most of the software I use regularly is compiled specifically for x86-64. Maybe it would be better if that were a rare exception rather than the norm.

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by pjmlp on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:34AM (#26396998)
Definitely, the use of Linux kernel is a pyrrhic victory only celebrated by those without native Android development experience.

NDK's main purpose, from Android team point of view, is for writing native libraries.

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