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Yes, they are so fast that I would be happy to use my phone as a computer if the industry didn't make it close to impossible

2Gkashmiri 4y ago
try to use ffmpeg on termux and on a regular laptop. beyond some slight timing difference, my tests on a random file gave me similar results which is amazing
- imtringued 4y ago
  Running a simple gradle build was 10 to 20 times slower.
  - 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygy_JfE0cMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygy_JfE0cMA check this
  - danielEM 4y ago
    Can you be specific? What was the phone and what was hardware on desktop that you're comparing here?
MR4D 4y ago
My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place. Although a phone has tons of power, and can probably function as a low-end desktop, the lack of a sizeable cooling solution, or even just a plain heatsink, would cause it to throttle pretty quickly. I have to believe this is the reason, or otherwise someone would have done it already (successfully that is) for such an obvious use case.
- danielEM 4y ago
  > My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place. If that was an issue you would see it already all around. > Although a phone has tons of power, and can probably function as a low-end desktop, the lack of a sizeable cooling solution, or even just a plain heatsink, would cause it to throttle pretty quickly. I would rather compare it to laptops and processing power of snapdragon 8 is rather in mid-upper segment of average available on the market laptop ARM is also a different platform with way better computing performance per Watt ratio from regular PC, there is throttling, but when it kicks in it doesn't reduce your performance so significantly > I have to believe this is the reason, or otherwise someone would have done it already (successfully that is) for such an obvious use case. Believe, or not - the reasons why it wasn't done so far are far beyond technical reasons and we could have computer like capable phones long time ago already.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago

try to use ffmpeg on termux and on a regular laptop. beyond some slight timing difference, my tests on a random file gave me similar results which is amazing

imtringued 4y ago
Running a simple gradle build was 10 to 20 times slower.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygy_JfE0cMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygy_JfE0cMA check this
- danielEM 4y ago
  Can you be specific? What was the phone and what was hardware on desktop that you're comparing here?

MR4D 4y ago

My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place. Although a phone has tons of power, and can probably function as a low-end desktop, the lack of a sizeable cooling solution, or even just a plain heatsink, would cause it to throttle pretty quickly. I have to believe this is the reason, or otherwise someone would have done it already (successfully that is) for such an obvious use case.

danielEM 4y ago
> My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place. If that was an issue you would see it already all around. > Although a phone has tons of power, and can probably function as a low-end desktop, the lack of a sizeable cooling solution, or even just a plain heatsink, would cause it to throttle pretty quickly. I would rather compare it to laptops and processing power of snapdragon 8 is rather in mid-upper segment of average available on the market laptop ARM is also a different platform with way better computing performance per Watt ratio from regular PC, there is throttling, but when it kicks in it doesn't reduce your performance so significantly > I have to believe this is the reason, or otherwise someone would have done it already (successfully that is) for such an obvious use case. Believe, or not - the reasons why it wasn't done so far are far beyond technical reasons and we could have computer like capable phones long time ago already.