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I wouldn't call the JIT, AOT and PGO efforts nothing, and stuff like project butter.

On the other hand going with a basic Assembly interpreter for Dalvik, when Nokia and Sony-Ericson already had JIT compilers for Symbian, while claming Android was better, no comments.

Likewise when comparing Symbian Series 60 3rd edition phones with Android.




There are plenty of smart people who work on Android system performance, unfortunately the work put into iOS overshadows it.




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