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Your mileage may vary.

Myriad had been trying to sell their own VM as a "turbo" Dalvik, but, so far, no takers, that I know of, among handset OEMs.

The thing is that Dalvik balances performance and battery life by aiming for fast interpretation plus minimal JIT compilation.

One could easily show that the Oracle VM would trounce Dalvik at computation benchmarks, since it is aiming for best possible performance using a very sophisticated JIT compiler. But I suspect getting the Oracle VM to not suck your battery dry would be a challenge.



To be fair, they didn't open source theirs and make it available for people to play with.




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