On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jack Harvard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I find that the same application running on Android has different > instruction counts every time it's run, and the difference in > instruction counts can be 2x or ~10 billion instructions, and I'm > trying to understand the reasons for that? > > Obvious reasons might be JIT and JVM, maybe Android browser has any > time dependent code as well? The Android source code tree is down for > some time, I don't have access to the source code. >
Unsure, trace based JIT, so optimizes based on what code is actually *used*. Some of it is mirrored on github, but even if you read dalvik, finding the answer to this question might take a long time (because it's just plain complicated to understand the source.) Kris > Thanks, > Jack > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

