Real life example, in Android 7 Google re-introduced an interpreter for DEX bytecodes, manually written in Assembly, throwing away the old one that existed until Android 5, written in C.
Real life example, in Android 7 Google re-introduced an interpreter for DEX bytecodes, manually written in Assembly, throwing away the old one that existed until Android 5, written in C.
Well, if true, those people at gogol did the right thing... if all the others could behave the same way...
If true? I usually only comment stuff I can post profs on, so is the Internet nature.
> Interpreter performance significantly improved in the Android 7.0 release with the introduction of "mterp" - an interpreter featuring a core fetch/decode/interpret mechanism written in assembly language
From https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/improvements
Still actually a thing on android 16, the latest?
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/c1d6b34/runt...
Yep, there are still people trying to do the right(tm) thing at gogol.
Maybe there were fired?