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comex on Jan 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS

Maybe, but among other things, it was also running Java code on a pure interpreter :)

I don't have any personal experience of either the ZTE Open or G1's performance, but an ancient Android phone shouldn't be a hard target to beat.

kg on Jan 9, 2014 [–]

Missing the key detail that huge parts of the Android stack, even then, were not interpreted Java. (Skia, for example)

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