Meet:Mobility Podcast 49 is now available. Broadcast and recorded live on 7th May 2010.
JKK, Chippy and guests, Nicole Scott (Netbook News) and Jose Ortiz (The Digital Lifestyle) talk about netbook growth, the threat and opportunity of the smartbook, HP’s Palm buyout and Intels Moorestown handheld platform. We also talk about our experiences with some of the top Android smartphones.
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Android apps can have native code in them–probably very few applications use this capability, but those apps won’t run on Android-x86 without recompilation/recoding. Android’s Dalvik was designed to be more efficient than JVM on processors with lots of registers, 32-bit x86 isn’t one of those, though AMD’s 64-bit mode is much better.
Absolutely true. I had completely forgotten about this, introduced in the latter part of last year right? Thanks for the correction.
Have you tested Dalkiv Turbo? It was announced for CPUs such as Atom earlier this year.
http://www.umpcportal.com/2010/02/myriad-offers-dalvic-turbo-for-intel-atom-android-and-windows-side-by-side/
I’ve totally forgotten about it, I recall having read one of the blog posts about it. I’ve been doing Android programming for only the last couple of weeks. The current Android Dalvik VM has lots of room for performance improvement, it currently is basically an interpreter, like the early Java VMs, with no dynamic compilation to native code.