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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by omeid2 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:42AM (#38541374)
Android apps are already running on top of a Virtualisation Technology", both current ART (Android Runtime) and the previous one, Delvik, runtimes are virtual machines, process level virtual machines, but they do bytecode translation/JIT nonetheless.

If AVF allows running native code, it might actually be cheaper than the current arrangement.

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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by glacia01 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:35AM (#38543032)
I'm not Android expert in any way, but VM have nothing to do with virtualization. I think you're confusing something.
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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by fragmede on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:01AM (#38543259)
what does VM stand for?
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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by walteweiss on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:50AM (#38543164)
What do you mean?

Literally, the title: ‘Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive’ and the very first sentence: ‘The Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) will be available on upcoming select Android 14 devices.’

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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by IAmLiterallyAB on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:42AM (#38543731)
Android apps can already run native code, so there's no performance benefit.

Also, Java "virtual machines" and native virtual machines are two very different things, they shouldn't be equated.

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