[NTLK] Einstein on Android - doing away with ARM emulation?

[Joseph Reilly]

My understanding of how android works is that all apps run through a virtual machine 
which keeps everything sandboxed pretty well and away from direct contact with the
 core os/hardware. I'd guess if this was to be tried you'd have to have a rooted device  
(if you don't already). Another issue my be the various arm chips in the many android 
devices, they may not all support the same features so you might have to tune for 
each chip... but I'm just guessing until a knowledgable person chimes in :-) I don't know a 
lot about the inner workings of android or newton so I may be way off base 
(and making myself look like a fool) :-/

Joe Reilly
 
On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Michael wrote:

> Since both the Newton and Android devices use ARM processors, would it
> be possible to do away with the ARM processor emulation within
> Einstein and have the host device execute the ARM instructions
> natively (virtualization-style)?
> 
> Years back, there were Mac emulators for the Amiga & Atari that did
> just that, using a Mac ROM and executing 68k instructions directly.  I
> think that VirtualBox & SheepShaver do a similar thing.
> 
> Would this be feasible?  Any other thoughts?  I imagine it would allow
> for incredibly fast performance...
> 
> Michael
> 
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