hi

does anybody know what is the difference between DVM and KVM

i found the following things
1. KVM is stack based while dalvik is register based.
2. KVM has no support for graphic libraries like AWT/Swing while android has 2D/3D graphic libraries

we have read tht DVM is efficient and optimized bytecode but how is this. I am trying to find of why it is more efficient 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

Hi,

DVM is very much efficient than KVM...

Discussion:

Every Android application runs on it's own process given by the OS, and own its own instance of the dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik Virtual Machine has been written so that a device can run multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik Virtual MAchine is executing files in the .dex (Dalvik Executable) format which was optimised for minimal cpu-and-memory usage.

That's it..

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vamsi

Hey guys,

and:

Several VMs protect ones application from being dragged down by another crashed Application.

Regards,
plusminus