nashorn on android? (impossible? improbable? :))

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

On 2013-01-22, at 7:15 PM, Darren Cruse <darren.cruse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hope this question isn't annoying (because the more I'd researched the more
> I think this is a real challenge).
> 
> But I'm excited at the idea of "javascript everywhere" and it would be
> really nice if "everywhere" wound up including nashorn on android.
> 
>> From googling around my suspicion is that invokedynamic is probably slow if
> ever coming to the Dalvik VM - am I seeing it right?
> 
> Or is there some solution coming for this?
> 
> e.g. I thought I'd seen something about a JSR for emulating invokedynamic
> on older JVMs but I can't find it - and now wonder if I dreamed it :).
> 
> Also I just stumbled on this:  http://code.google.com/p/droid292/
> 
> But it looks more like a proposal than a going concern at this point.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> What are the odds of nashorn ever coming to android?

We are only supporting on the JVM.  Another group would have to take on Dalvik.