Re:Google Pixel C Review
by pjmlp on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:36AM
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Yes, my Lumia 630 is faster than most Android devices priced around 200€ and below.
One problem with Android is that they went software rendering since the early days, and even with all the changes to hardware rendering, there are code paths that will trigger software rendering.
Now they started advertising Android M should have proper audio support, but it doesn't seem like it.
Even with ART, it appears that compilation to native code still needs to improve a lot.
iOS and WP have much more care in native code performance, hardware rendering and real time audio support.
Then by making use of programming languages with support for value types, they require way less memory than Android devices.
Apparently it is better to spend resources playing IDE and build tools migrations.
One problem with Android is that they went software rendering since the early days, and even with all the changes to hardware rendering, there are code paths that will trigger software rendering.
Now they started advertising Android M should have proper audio support, but it doesn't seem like it.
Even with ART, it appears that compilation to native code still needs to improve a lot.
iOS and WP have much more care in native code performance, hardware rendering and real time audio support.
Then by making use of programming languages with support for value types, they require way less memory than Android devices.
Apparently it is better to spend resources playing IDE and build tools migrations.