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Moore's law seems to be in full effect for handsets. I think a lot of the innovation here is a stop gap measure before these handsets have virtual memory, maki
by johnrob 17y ago
Moore's law seems to be in full effect for handsets. I think a lot of the innovation here is a stop gap measure before these handsets have virtual memory, making the complication behind multi tasking obsolete.
On a side note, I seem to take heat every time I imply that phones will end up on par with PCs. The common theme I've been pushing is that most of the developments we've seen in PCs over the past decade will reoccur for phones. Is this really so far fetched?
- sunchild 17y agoIt gets a little silly to talk about "phones" in this context. Making and receiving one-to-one voice communications is already just one of many features, and arguably already not the main feature.
- comex 17y agoAnd, on the iPad, not a feature at all. :)
- comex 17y agoI hope not. My iPad with 256MB of RAM and a relatively slow ARM processor feels snappier than my laptop with 2GB and a dual-core 64-bit Intel processor, partly due to the consistency: I never know, on the latter, whether an application will respond quickly (because it is active in memory), or slowly (because it isn't). If I could use iPhone OS's model on my laptop-- with more freedom due to the increased memory, but still omitting swap in favor of automatic saving/memory management-- I would. though, who knows, maybe the declining cost of RAM will solve this problem for PCs, and eventually phones.