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strongm is offline strongm
2014-10-21 , 09:55
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Originally Posted by smoku View Post
And what is a VM?

Let's see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
"In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of [...]"
So - what is Dalvik emulating, then? You probably want to read the entire article, rather than just the executive summary.

Dalvik is a process VM, just like the Java Virtual Machine, or the .Net framework, neither of which emulate anything at all (except in a very, very abstract sense)
Last edited by strongm; 2014-10-21 at 10:31.