• Sheltac@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Interesting, I always thought it had to do with Android’s ungodly software stack which at some point involves, of all things, fucking java.

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      1 year ago

      Android doesn’t use Java at a byte-code level and never has, as far as I can tell. Source code was written in Java since mobile developers were so used to it but Android never ran the JVM, they do their own thing with Java source.

      You can dislike Java syntax but the software stack on Android wasn’t Java’s.

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        1 year ago

        They compile Java Bytecode to Dalvik Bytecode and run that on the Android Runtime which is a tiered JIT compiler.

        It still inherits the issues of Java such as the GC, no stack allocated value types, poor cache locality, etc. Although tbf the GC on Android is pretty fucking good these days and doesn’t pause the world anymore.