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> Whether that will continue to hold I don't know, mobile has certainly pushed certain parts back towards caring about efficiency (though more because it impact
by flukus 9y ago
> Whether that will continue to hold I don't know, mobile has certainly pushed certain parts back towards caring about efficiency (though more because it impacts battery life).
Has it? Try using a low end phone with something like 8GB of internal storage, mobile apps are ridiculously slow and bloated. It's to the point where I haven't looked in the play store for years because I simply don't have enough room on my phone. That means the dev community has screwed itself over with wastefulness.
- noir_lord 9y agoGiven that my phone is broadly capable of doing the tasks of my laptop from 5 years ago and that it does it with half the RAM, a fraction of the processing power and a power budget of 3500mah for the entire day (something my laptop from 5 years ago would blow through in minutes if not seconds..) yes?
- mrob 9y agoI think in some cases "improved" efficiency for mobile has actually harmed subjective performance, because it encourages trading latency for throughput. I care more about how fast software feels than how fast it benchmarks. Worst cast latency matters. I'd happily accept a thicker and heavier device if it meant I never had to wait for it.
- Tomis02 9y ago> mobile apps are ridiculously slow and bloated When you look at the Android SDK you have to wonder if it's even possible to have a different outcome.