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2008-09-24 , 18:17
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Originally Posted by brontide View Post
Android doesn't run Java... it runs a language that is similar to java on a custom VM.
IIUC, it runs java compiled to a different bytecode.

Porting existing code should be closer to a recompile and further from a port to a different language, anyway. It does preclude use of closed binaries, though, unless someone writes a bytecode translator.
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