{"id":186,"date":"2010-05-27T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:28:04","slug":"duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/05\/27\/duncan\/","title":{"rendered":"James Duncan Davidson Comes Down From the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You know it\u2019s a platform war when the programming language debates heat up. Yesterday, Sam Pullara dusted off the old string comparison benchmark and dressed it up with a fresh click-baiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.javarants.com\/2010\/05\/26\/android-dalvik-vm-performance-is-a-threat-to-the-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline<\/a>.\u00a0It worked\u2014enough to make Tomcat-and-Ant-creator-turned-photographer James Duncan Davidson put down his camera and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journal.duncandavidson.com\/post\/636400019\/android-vm-performance-is-not-a-factor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">give a history lesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does Android\u2019s Dalvik VM bring things to the table that previous JITs did not? It\u2019s entirely possible. Duncan\u2019s final point is the key one: all that matters here is whose users get the most done, and have the most fun doing it. It\u2019s gonna be awhile before we know. In the meantime, grab your popcorn. This rivalry gets better by the minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know it\u2019s a platform war when the programming language debates heat up. Yesterday, Sam Pullara dusted off the old string comparison benchmark and dressed it up with a fresh click-baiting\u00a0headline.\u00a0It worked\u2014enough to make Tomcat-and-Ant-creator-turned-photographer James Duncan Davidson put down his camera and\u00a0give a history lesson. Does Android\u2019s Dalvik VM bring things to the table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}