electron is such a good way to make applications that some people i know are using signal in the android emulator because it's faster
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With x86 android and VT-x enabled, I could see this being pretty competitive yeah. Does Signal have an x86 build for android?
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It's written in Java and shipped as dex bytecode but Android has full support for compiling that to native code. It can do full ahead-of-time compilation on the device. The default upstream configuration is to start with JIT compilation, with PGO AOT based on that done later on.
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The usual optimization level ('speed') doesn't AOT compile one-time initializers or ridiculously long methods (unlike 'everything') and the default PGO mode leaves out any dead code or cold code based on the JIT profiles that were made.