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I recall seeing a "libopenjdkjni" related review on android-review earlier today. It was just a makefile change though, no real code diff. Unfortunately I can't find the review anymore.
To explain if you are just joining in: This pretty much means Oracle v Google, a case with major ramifications for the industry has been settled out of court. I don't see how this can be interpreted any other way.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/aab9...
Change dependency from libart -> libopenjdkjvm.
Android still needs to run dex bytecode somehow, so there are two possibilities for how N will work.
Option one is that Android stick with ART and replaces Harmony with OpenJDK: from a technical perspective, that wouldn't be the end of the world, especially since the Harmony implementation is rather inefficient.
Option two is that Google ports Hotspot to run on Android and, then has PackageManager convert dex bytecode back to Java bytecode on device. That would be awful, since ART is built for low-end devices and, well, Hotspot isn't.
In favor of option one is that Google is still developing ART. In favor of option two is Oracle being Satan incarnate.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Oracle has compelled Google to simply ship a copy of Hotspot, allowing developers to ship "authentic Java" APKs instead of dex-bytecode ones, with the two environments running in parallel, with two different zygotes.
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Entire AWT and Swing API. Nuts indeed!
I'm starting to wonder if Oracle got them to go JCK. Would be a technically crappy development that serves little actual purpose. Or maybe something's cooking and we don't know yet.
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1000s of games have shipped with gc. Every Unreal and Unity game uses gc. Every XNA game used gc. Many of the largest most popular AAA games use gc. So yes we can ask professional game devs if they want a gc. Most will say "yes". Like any tool you know when to use them and when not to
>Many of the largest most popular AAA games use gc Like, actual GC and not smart pointers? I would like a list.
Does this mean they're discarding ART for OpenJDK's VM?
This diff is more explicit about what's going on: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/aab9... Change dependency from libart -> libopenjdkjvm. There are also diffs adding lambda support, tweaking various classes for compatibility with applications that use reflection to access internal capabilities, and fixing lots OpenJDK compatibility bugs. Android still needs to run dex bytecode somehow , so the…
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1000s of games have shipped with gc. Every Unreal and Unity game uses gc. Every XNA game used gc. Many of the largest most popular AAA games use gc. So yes we can ask professional game devs if they want a gc. Most will say "yes". Like any tool you know when to use them and when not to
>Many of the largest most popular AAA games use gc Like, actual GC and not smart pointers? I would like a list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games
TSubobjectPtr are smart pointers, but regular pointers will still be garbage collected if they are UPROPERTY() and in a class derived from UObject
Tim Sweeny talks about GC a bit in https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...
The presentation is a little dated, but they're still using GC, so...
In the context of the recent juniper attack where some unauthorized code was committed without anybody noticing for years, it seems like it would be easy to hide a backdoor in such a big commit.
How do you go about checking the integrity of the code when you have so many files?
8902 files were changed, most added, and the commit says it's just importing openJDK files. Is there anybody checking that the source file imported haven't been modified to include some kind of backdoor?
edit: replaced "cisco" with "juniper"