Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
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Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#2what are the advantages of this over Kotlin?
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#3what are the advantages of this over Kotlin?
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Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#4A java jitted VM built from scratch.. i wonder if we have a way to see how it performs, compared to other jits (specially the Android ART)?
By a very crude look at the source, looks very lightweight indeed
> Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for fast method execution
> Generational, copying garbage collection ensures short pause times and good spatial locality
> Thread-local heaps provide O(1) memory allocation with no synchronization overhead
> Null pointer dereferences are handled via OS signals to avoid unecessary branches
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#5As an interesting aside, Avian has native support for coroutines through stack de/re-hydration. I have yet to use it, but it looks quite interesting.
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#6How does it JIT on iOS given that normal apps cannot write to executable memory ?
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#7Anyone have any examples? Only documentation is javadoc and the examples links are all 404.
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#8Does it support the full jdk?
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#9what are the advantages of this over Kotlin?
can't tell if troll
To be fair, I can't really tell from the website what this is and why I would want it ("doesn't Android already have a JVM?"), and Kotlin could easily be defined as "a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on Android" as well!
Re: Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
can't tell if troll
To be fair, I can't really tell from the website what this is and why I would want it ("doesn't Android already have a JVM?"), and Kotlin could easily be defined as "a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on Android" as well!
In the first line of "About Avian" on the homepage:
> Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class lbrary [sic] designed to provide a useful subset of Java’s features