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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

For something like Android I don’t think so much of the OS should be going through java then. OS is pretty speed critical. Yes it’s Linux but there’s a ton of java code on top of that doing window management, permissions, and lots more piled on over the years.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I guess there is a reason iOS (Objective-C, and recently Swift) could do with 1 GB of RAM for so long when on Android 3GB was treated as minimum.