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by kuhn 3867 days ago
Actually ART runs DEX bytecode not JVM bytecode so I'd argue it's not a JVM at all. By your definition anything that can translate Java to an intermediate representation is a JVM. Does that make LLVM a JVM?

https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-front...

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No, but ART's sole purpose is to run JVM translated programs. If you had another fm that run Java and other languages, you could argue that it is A JVM, but it is also a fm for what ever the language it runs.
I am guessing Oracle's lawyers will argue that is indeed the case. Let's hope they do not prevail
They lost that argument against Google already.