Hi, I've become rather frustrated with the lack of computational speed of Android apps as compared to equivalent Java ME apps running on other platforms such as Nokia's, apparently due to the lack of a JIT compiler for Android. Moreover, a JIT compiler does not seem to be on the horizon yet (not on the Android roadmap, and NDK/JNI has issues too, http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_frm/thread/34c3b633ebac1eb0/ ).
V8 looks quite promising as a possible accelerator for small but compute-intensive algorithms once V8 is available on Android phones, to recoup the factor 5 - 10 speed loss due to interpreter-only Dalvik bytecode processing. Are there any plans to provide a programming interface in the Android SDK 2.0 such that one may call Javascript functions for compilation and execution by V8? With shared memory for array variables for basic data types such as int[]? Clearly the application developer would have to recode some time-critical code snippets in Javascript, but that does in general not look like a big deal. Thanks! The vOICe for Android http://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
