The first Android app you open takes quite a while to load; subsequent apps in the same session are far faster
as the Dalvik player is already running and all the Android apps you run appear in a single window with a list of icons for running apps at the bottom.
So it all depends on how RIM and its ability to come up with a software that can be as good
as Dalvik.
Not exact matches
No mention of what other method they will be using at this time but a lot of companies have been creating virtualization platforms
as of late, the latest being Myriad which has recently announced their Myriad Alien
Dalvik.
The rumor is that RIM is considering to use
Dalvik virtual machine for their QNX OS on the PlayBook and mobiles, which is the same
as what Android currently uses.
• Speed: Android 2.2 runs two to five times
as fast
as previous versions, thanks to a new
Dalvik JIT compiler that allows for better CPU performance.
According to «multiple trusted sources» speaking to BGR, RIM is considering using the
Dalvik Java virtual machine,
as used by Android, and potentially opening the door to the PlayBook and other QNX - based devices to run Android code.
ART (Android Runtime) replaced
Dalvik as the new virtual machine when it was introduced in Android Lollipop.
Also,
as we have previously mention, the switch to the Android Runtime (ART) instead of
Dalvik is going to improve battery life during active use.
But that was always going to be the case, with Android Lollipop being a significant leap from KitKat, with Material Design and the shift from
Dalvik to ART (Android Runtime)
as the default runtime among a number of other changes.
Google's Dave Burke claims it runs twice
as fast
as the old
Dalvik runtime.
The ART was also available on the Android KitKat OS
as an option but by default the KitKat ran
Dalvik.
ART replaced the aging
Dalvik Virtual Machine and gave Google and developers greater control of Android on a deep level,
as well
as elevating performance and memory use to new heights.
With the default runtime changing from DVM (
Dalvik Virtual Machine) to ART (Android Run Time), Xposed Framework had taken a long time before it was available on Lollipop, but diehard fans of the popular software will be now be rejoicing at the prospect of being able to get the Xposed functionalities on their Marshmallow devices, especially
as module developers will hopefully now start updating their software for compatibility with the latest version of Xposed.
Although not
as radical
as the change from
Dalvik to ART, Android O's platform changes will still probably rock the Android boat at its core.