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How To Make Your iPhone App Launch Faster (by faking it)
- jacquesm 17y agoThe really amazing thing here is that it should take a full four seconds to launch a calculator application on a mobile phone. That should be instant, no delay at all. A calculator application with such limited functionality should be well under 100 K and load in a split second.
- jdg 17y agoI bet you could build it in a weekend, too?
- jacquesm 17y agoerrmm... does this count ? A casio fx something or other clone. The binary was 61107 bytes long (statically linked). http://ww.com/qwmcalc.txt http://ww.com/qwmcalc.txt Took about a week. I don't recall claiming it only took a weekend. Apologies for the 'classic' style coding, it's pretty old code. The window manager this talks to was for the Qnx operating system.
- allenbrunson 17y agoThat's a limitation of the platform, not the calculator. The CPU in the first-gen and second-gen iPhones is pretty slow. There is essentially no such thing as an iPhone app that loads instantaneously.