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The article and all the responses here express "latency" as a simple scalar number. Is it actually more like a histogram of values than a scalar, and the marke
by philsnow 6y ago
The article and all the responses here express "latency" as a simple scalar number. Is it actually more like a histogram of values than a scalar, and the marketing number is the 90th %ile of that histogram?
My impression is that Android has more latency variance than iOS. If that's true then it's important to be clear what the reported numbers represent.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoLatency variance is known as jitter. What gives you the impression that it would be high on Android?
- philsnow 6y agoHaving used nearly every flagship android device from the HTC Dream up through the Nexus 6p, and then switching to an iphone 6 and never looking back, except watching acquaintances use their android phones. Also from talking to an engineer who worked on earlier generations of iphones, who said that every team had a latency budget that they could not exceed.
- jefftk 6y agoIf you open the audio context you should see consistent latency as long as you keep it open, but each time you open a new audio context you might end up with different latency. You should not see jitter within a single context.