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For me it's a mystery how phone specs are so good, but their performance is so bad. Always freezing, crashing, long load times, etc. I have an old PSP (PlaySta
by XCSme 6y ago
For me it's a mystery how phone specs are so good, but their performance is so bad. Always freezing, crashing, long load times, etc.
I have an old PSP (PlayStation Portable) and whenever I turn it on I'm amazed at how fast and lag-free it is. This probably proves that the problem is most likely the software, not the hardware.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoOne of the golden things about gaming consoles is that software is typically written with the exact hardware in mind and there are pretty big costs on both sides of the vendor/buyer relationship. You have the opportunity to be able to know exactly how all of your customers will run it and you have a good chance of having the extra $ to actually give a damn about performance.
- fragsworth 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law Frameworks piled on frameworks to make things 5% faster to develop, combined with a general tendency for software developers to not optimize anything until someone complains.
- johanbcn 6y agoIt's because mobile GPUs cannot keep up the pace at which display technologies are advancing. First there was this trend to have ultra high dpi and ultra high resolution in the palm of your hands, and now they are toying with increasing refresh rates. All while trying to maintain a reasonable battery life.