Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in 4.4

Re:Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced ... by pcwalton on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:55PM (#6656350)

So I guess no moving GC still, because of LLVM. That's unfortunate.

Does anyone know whether Android/Dalvik has made decisions that lock them into non-moving/conservative GC or whether it's still a possibility in the future?

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Re:Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced ... by djh_ on Friday November 01, 2013 @07:52PM (#6657376)

Google made changes to how the JNI returns references to Java objects in Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) so that native code can work with a moving GC.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/11/jni-local-ref...

Doesn't answer your question, just some supporting evidence.

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Re:Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced ... by dbaupp on Saturday November 02, 2013 @08:15AM (#6658960)

Hopefully that means that Google throws some developers at giving LLVM better GC support, so the rest of us benefit.

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