[Tfug] OT: Phones..... Argh!

[Bexley Hall]

Hi John,

On 3/24/2013 4:07 AM, John Gruenenfelder wrote:

> At present I am working on getting CM 10.1 / Android 4.2 onto my HTC
> Flyer tablet.  I don't remember if its CPU is faster or slower (it's
> close), but it is only single-core.  It does have, however, twice the
> RAM of the Droid 3 and because of this it will run circles around the
> phone.  With my Droid 1, I quickly learned that with Android total RAM
> is much more important than raw CPU horsepower.  The Droid 3 has twice
> the RAM of the Droid 1, and I initially thought that would be fine
> (plus, the Droid 3 was the latest in the line at the time), but I have
> since realized that a *realistic* minimum for decent performance
> appears to be that amount twice over again, or 1 GB.  As Don
> mentioned, it is rather amazing that a device with these sorts of
> specs (the Droid 3 in this case) could *ever* be slow, but the truth
> is in the tapping, I suppose.

Of course, you have no way of knowing the relative skillsets of the
folks writing each of these.  (I once used a assembler-compiler-linker
suite that spent almost 60% of its time in "strtod/atoi"!)  Is there
a range of implementation languages available for developers?  I.e.,
are they all forced to write code in Java?  Are the "offending"
apps/components all from similar "suppliers"?

[One reason I picked Limbo/Inferno for my scripting app was
because it was *so* much more efficient than Java!]