how to help with android

Matthew Caron Matt.Caron at redlion.net
Mon Aug 6 04:48:12 PDT 2012


On 08/05/2012 11:19 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> I was thinking on this a bit. What if someone wrote a compiler target
>> that compiled D to JVM bytecode? I know there are other compilers
>> which do similar things.
>
> Then your code will be just Dalvik bytecode, with some of it being JITed
> depending on specific hotspots.
>
> The only benefit is to compile directly to native code.

I'd argue that it depends on what you want to do. If one wants to have 
some D code which supports multiple platforms, and performance is a 
secondary consideration, than this may be a viable approach.
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