Hi,
can someone explain the advantages of the DarvikVM to me, just looks like "one in million" VMs available...

Thx in advance...

Hi sushihunter,

first its called Dalvik

So, the DarlikVM was specificly designed for Android and for the needs of running in an embedded environment, like: limited battery, limited memory, limited cpu,...
The DalvikVM runs *.dex-Files what are of course still ByteCodes, but which are converted at build-time from *.class or *.jar -files. After that conversion the ByteCode is highly optimized to run on Embedded Devices and so is much more memory and cpu-efficient.
It is also designed to allow multiple VM instances to run at once, relying on the underlying operating system for process isolation, memory management and threading support. Dalvik is often referred to as a Java Virtual Machine, but this is not strictly accurate, as the bytecode on which it operates is notJava bytecode.

I assume this was enough information, wasn't it ?
If not i'll tell you some more

Regards,
plusminus

hi

does anybody know what is the difference between DVM and KVM

i found that KVM is stack based while dalvik is register based. we have read tht DVM is efficient and optimized bytecode but how is this. I want to find of why it is more effiecient and some detailed comparison with K virtual machine?

Thanks

Hello neel,

I never worked with KVM, but I can give you some lines of the android-book I'm writing:

...Also of register-based VMs allow faster execution times at the expense of programs which are larger after compilation.

Regards,
plusminus