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grey-area on June 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go support for Android

In practice, is the number of hardware targets larger than two or three? I doubt it would be a problem for google to certify hardware targets.

tormeh on June 21, 2014 [–]

But here's the kicker: The number of targets is a variable. Google would have to force developers to recompile for each new ISA. New ISAs keep getting added, many of them ARM ISAs that are not mutually compatible.

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