take up too much memory for the shared processes that’s only ever going to be used by one app.” Bob credits Zygote for Android being at all functional at that time: “The Zygote thing helped a lot, just being able to share memory, going from having just a couple Java processes running to having dozens running on a really small device. And rather than having to wait for a whole VM to start up, our apps actually looked faster; they would launch instantly, because we’d just fork a process and start right there. Everything was already warmed up.” Eventually, Zygote contained not just code, but also
...more
