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		bad_user on April 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Android Side Project > 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).

nl on April 12, 2010 | [–]

"all APIs are running on top of Dalvik"

No, the NDK (Native Development Kit) allows you to bypass Dalvik for some APIs - OpenGL ES, math, compression etc. The complete list is on http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

Estragon on April 12, 2010 | [–]

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