Google’s Android was a major topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and one of the companies taking advantage of the OS is Myriad. The Zurich-based mobile technology firm has released the Dalvik Turbo virtual machine, which can boost application execution speed by up to three times, according to exes.
Dalvik is the virtual machine that powers the Java platform on Android-based phones. Myriad’s Dalvik Turbo basically replaces the existing Dalvik engine with a more powerful version, which speeds up apps, preserves battery life, and allows for more powerful apps – like games.
I stopped by Myriad’s booth at MWC, where Gael Rosset, vice president of product management at Myriad, showed off a demo of the technology.
Rosset launched a spinning, 3D cube animation on two identical, Android-based HTC phones – one running Dalvik Turbo and the other the standard Dalvik engine. The cube on the Dalvik Turbo was spinning much faster than the cube on the other phone, as demonstrated on the video above.
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