René Rebe

I hereby publicly document a novel implementation detail for Just-In-Time compilers. As I am not too motivated to shell out some ton of money for patent process and therefore like to document prior art in case other go and patent this eventually:

AFAIK the state of the art JIT compilers use a tracing technique like in Google’s V8, Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey and Mike Pall’s LuaJIT that first interprets internal byte code representation to collect data for later JIT’ing hot paths.

This has two major drawbacks: Interpreted code is initially slower, and in addition to the actual JIT “backend” an “interpreter” engine needs to be implemented.
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As long as the better Android phones are still shipped with region lock and worse battery exchange / repair than iPhone I say: Thanks but no thanks - and stay with the iPhone. Unless of course future models make battery change even harder as well, … :-/