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Could it also be that a lot more of the applications are written and compiled to the native machine versus the overhead of a VM (even if that is JIT). I'd guess Minecraft pocket edition would perform similar on both systems.

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Even if more things are being compiled to native code instead of Dalvik, I don't think that would explain the benchmark results here, as I think SPEC is always compiled to native code. It seems there's something more fundamental to Apple's hardware that is allowing for such insane performance.

As for Minecraft Pocket Edition, isn't that written in native code anyways? So I'd expect it to perform better on Apple hardware, assuming the hardware is actually the bottleneck for performance.

Dalvik hasn't been used on Android for more than 4 years (since Android 5): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)

Looks like things are still compiled to Dalvik bytecode for distribution, but get recompiled to native code upon installation. I didn't know that; I don't follow Adnroid closely, so the particulars of the runtime aren't something I'm familiar with. Still, TIL. Thanks!

They added another JIT too. So first pass is the AOT installation binary, but it'll JIT traces too.

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