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So I guess no moving GC still, because of LLVM. That's unfortunate.

Does anyone know whether Android/Dalvik has made decisions that lock them into non-moving/conservative GC or whether it's still a possibility in the future?

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Google made changes to how the JNI returns references to Java objects in Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) so that native code can work with a moving GC.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/11/jni-local-ref...

Doesn't answer your question, just some supporting evidence.

Hopefully that means that Google throws some developers at giving LLVM better GC support, so the rest of us benefit.

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