Thursday, May 7, 2015

Comment on Video: ‘Project Astoria’, Microsoft’s Android app porting tool, at work by Alex Coassin


Comment on Video: ‘Project Astoria’, Microsoft’s Android app porting tool, at work by Alex Coassin

Android is JIT compiled and the runtime is open source. There is absolutely no need for emulation. They just need to build a runtime capable of consuming the same IL that Android apps compile to and they should in theory be able to run just as fast as on Android.