Comments on: Android gets faster apps, better graphics, longer battery life

By: Cuno Pfister

Cuno Pfister — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:03:59 +0000

Well yes, there is one. A very old one, in fact. Dalvik is an interpreter, while Dalvik Turbo compiles intermediate code upon class loading into native machine code.

By: Ammar Mardawi

Ammar Mardawi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:00:13 +0000

If it is now 3x faster, then the current version is at least 3x slower than it should be.

There does not seem to be any technical breakthroughs that allowed this performance gain. They probably fixed issues that shouldn’t be there in the first place.

By: Aaron Weiss

Aaron Weiss — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:28:45 +0000

I’d be happy with any performance increase. The biggest complaint–actually I really don’t complain that much about it–is the speed when I’m multitasking.

By: Papadrioni

Papadrioni — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:13:18 +0000

Is is as buggy, as their JVM for VxWorks? Does their GC still looses memory in concurrent mode, 20 bytes at a time, I wonder?
This is not a joke.

By: Sarreq Teryx

Sarreq Teryx — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:18:58 +0000

excellent! will we actually see this in Android, and if so, when?

By: Jaap

Jaap — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:39:23 +0000

I can believe it’s faster but 3x seems like a marketing trick.Probably there are some instructions are so that run 3x but on average 3x I simply do not belief

By: bobby critical

bobby critical — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:47:45 +0000

If this is true, lets see a tech demo showing it. I heard your dad is stronger than my dad, too, but until we put them face to face I don’t really believe you.