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I'm genuinely curious - what apps use/need all this power? And this is a genuine question, my usage is probably 'typical' and not pushing the device so I don't
by PuffinBlue 8y ago
I'm genuinely curious - what apps use/need all this power?
And this is a genuine question, my usage is probably 'typical' and not pushing the device so I don't know what people do with their phones that takes advantage of this processing power.
- zip1234 8y agoWeb browsing certainly benefits in almost every phone. There are loads of pages that will crush old phones now. You won't see HN perform better, but sites that are loaded with cruft and ads will render smoother. Another benefit of faster/more efficient processors is battery life.
- photojosh 8y agoNotably, the A12 added a specific CPU numeric instruction that is aimed directly at Javascript. But apparently it's not even being used yet, and the phones still beat desktop machines at JS benchmarks. [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/11/arm-v83-javascript https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/11/arm-v83-javascr...
- photojosh 8y agoThere's a ton of computation going on in the Photos app these days, both computational photography to create the image itself, along with things like face and object recognition. The newest phones do HDR video, which is quite intensive. Then there's AR.