Also, in theory you ought to be able to use the Android NDK
to get the native C versions of Ruby and/or Python going.
It’d be a slog, but the idea doesn’t seem insane.
I'd be really interested to hear about anyone doing this. Seems like you pay a heavy price for dynamicity on Dalvik, because introspection is expensive.
> Seems like you pay a heavy price for dynamicity on Dalvik, because introspection is expensive
Citations?
On Android it seems to me that all APIs are running on top of Dalvik, so to use other interpreters (outside of Dalvik) means you have to pay the price for IPC calls (coupled with an interpreter that isn't optimized for mobiles).
