I was hoping to avoid having to put something like AMP in place, because it looked a bit overkill for my case.
I think I actually found a way :-)
In what way is it "overkill"? The dictionary says that <
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/overkill> is "an excess of what is required or suitable, as because of zeal or misjudgment". What is AMP too much of? Memory? CPU? Bandwidth? API complexity? Code size? As compared to what?