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Regarding GC, Windows Phone apps are garbage-collected, yet Windows Phones has a great reputation for smoothness and responsiveness on anemic hardware like the
by curt15 10y ago
Regarding GC, Windows Phone apps are garbage-collected, yet Windows Phones has a great reputation for smoothness and responsiveness on anemic hardware like the Nokia 520.
- coredog64 10y agoWP only runs one application at a time. When you switch away from an app, it's "tombstoned" so that the app in focus has all available resources. It is possible to run tasks in the background, but IIRC the OS reserves the right to tell your background task "GFY".
- izacus 10y agoWhich is exactly what Android and iOS do as well.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoNo it doesn't. One look at the Windows Phone reddit will tell you otherwise. Windows phone jank is masked by superfluous animations, capped scrolling speeds and other tricks to hide it. Unfortunately, those tricks don't do the job.