Wrong. Think of the three big mouths to feed in Android running modern apps or a browser (all of which require the embedded WebKit):
* Kernel
* Dalvik
* WebKit
The middle one is in fact a big memory and CPU pig for real workloads. Take it out, and B2G fits with room to spare on the 256MB QualComm phone we demo'ed at MWC -- ~128M used by kernel, Gecko, Gaia and apps at most.
Android does not even fit on this phone.
Your assumption that native-app framework and VM code loaded in practice is a "tiny bit of overhead" is false.
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Wrong. Think of the three big mouths to feed in Android running modern apps or a browser (all of which require the embedded WebKit):
* Kernel
* Dalvik
* WebKit
The middle one is in fact a big memory and CPU pig for real workloads. Take it out, and B2G fits with room to spare on the 256MB QualComm phone we demo'ed at MWC -- ~128M used by kernel, Gecko, Gaia and apps at most.
Android does not even fit on this phone.
Your assumption that native-app framework and VM code loaded in practice is a "tiny bit of overhead" is false.