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Google I/O 2008 - Dalvik Virtual Machine Internals

Google for Developers · talk · Watch on YouTube

Compilers, interpreters & program analysisOperating systems & kernels

What it is

Dan Bornstein's Google I/O 2008 talk on the internals of Dalvik, the virtual machine that runs Android code. It covers the motivation for its design, the dex format and its register-based interpreter, plus tips for writing code that suits the platform.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as the primary source on Dalvik's dex bytecode, register-based design and memory-saving choices.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “Dan Bornstein's talk at Google I/O 2008 about the dex format and the original Dalvik interpreter”

    Talk about the dex format and original Dalvik interpreter.

    yonran, 2012-05 · Recommendation · in “Android Ported to C#”

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Topics: dalvik, android, dex bytecode, register-based vm, google io

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