Thread: Meego vs Android apps (C or Java?)
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attila77 is offline attila77
2011-02-28 , 20:55
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#166
Originally Posted by zimon View Post
The fancier smarter way, like defragmentation when needed, will be more inefficient in C++ than with Java JIT. Java JIT can use real pointers in its JIT'ed code, but C++ with a "fancy" memory management should have all pointers then indirect (or do code morphing). When GC in JVM notices there is fragmentation or the ratio of pagefaults has increased, it can re-arrange the objects and re-JIT the affected hotspots.
I understand what you say and disagree. Sorry. C++ can also be JIT-ed, garbage collected, and VM memory management is by no means a holy grail (if nothing else, the VM does not know about physical memory layout and architecture, which will always be an issue). C++ has moved past the '80s and Stroustrup, honest, and mobile contexts are a fairly unexplored area for JIT and proactive fancypants memory management.
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