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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by jey on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @01:09AM (#79668)
Why's that? Sure, you have to ship some more support code (parts of the language runtime) as part of the compiled bytecode, but that just increases the size of the bytecode somewhat. It's not a fatal problem at all.

Parrot always seemed like an odd idea to me, but I just assumed that there must be enough to be gained by doing such a high level VM if people were bothering to write it.

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by imsteve on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @12:44PM (#79785)
No, it's not about size. Of course not.

I was referring to performance and ease of adapting the JVM's way of doing things internally to very different languages. This is quoting a number of parrot and jython developers. I have the links around here somewhere..

Why do you think jython et all are so terribly far behind? It's not for shortage of interest, more because the likely possible outcome of this could only be sub-par.

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