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One really good side effect of this move is going to be that you can run Android apps with ease on Windows. I wonder if this will make people move towards apps
by me551ah 6y ago
One really good side effect of this move is going to be that you can run Android apps with ease on Windows. I wonder if this will make people move towards apps instead of electron apps. Since android apps are made for low power devices, they would run with minimal resource consumption on laptops. They are pretty snappy too.
- lxgr 6y agoHow would an x64 emulator help with running Android applications on a Windows computer? Are you maybe mixing this up with Microsoft's recent Android on Windows efforts? These would require an ARM emulator for x86, not the other way around.
- T-A 6y agoGP is implying that PCs will move to ARM and run legacy Windows software on the x64 emulator. Android apps compiled for ARM will therefore run natively.
- lionkor 6y agoor we could just, you know, write better software. I'm not going to go on a whole rant about the link between software quality and hardware speed, but I will say this: If we can write an app that does the job for a low power device, we can write the same app for a high power device and not make any compromises. I wonder why we don't do that. As in, why don't we develop software that runs as fast as it can? Some companies do, and it's really nice to see, and especially game developers are notoriously good at this. Yet, if I want a cross platform chat service, I usually have to put up with code running in a JS interpreter, through a JIT compiler, in a sandbox in a sandbox in a browser, burning CPU cycles so hard my laptop thermally throttles.