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koenigdavidmj on May 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android Ported to C#

> Dalvik in particular makes some fairly severe tradeoffs to reduce memory usage.

Out of curiosity, would you be willing to write a little blurb (or post a link) about those tradeoffs?

yonran on May 1, 2012 [–]

Here's Dan Bornstein's talk at Google I/O 2008 about the dex format and the original Dalvik interpreter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjedOZEXPM I'm not sure how useful it is in comparing the Dalvik JIT to MonoTouch though.

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