On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yep, *exclusively* would not be a good idea. The user still would want > phone-calls to come in and other such tasks.
Phone calls per se are not a problem. AFAIK calls are handled on the 2nd core, dedicated entirely to this purpose. What would run on "our" CPU though is the dialer activity, and then the call log one. Like I said, I don't mind the PAUSE. It's OK for any game to be paused because of an incoming phone call. What's NOT ok is for some other process to steal CPU cycles, and especially to peak the CPU (like when a GC kicks in). > But wouldn't causing Android to be a bit (a lot) more aggresive in > cleaning up not-so-important processes be something that is possible? > > Another (outlandish?) possibility: > A phone-setting that's something similar like 'Airplane Mode' (the > mode disabling all the phone's radio-activity). Let's call it 'Game > Mode'. It'll give the user a better game-console experience, but a > lousier (or non-existent) phone experience. No, this is bad. What's better is in this Game mode, to allow the phone's radio activity, so it can detect a call and log it in the missed calls log. However, the trick is how to do it without allocating memory, which will then need to be GCed. > > Android engineers: > We heard from you what's *not* possible. > But what could be possible? I'd be interested in hearing about this > from you all, even if the ideas seam outlandish. :-) Me too! > > On Mar 26, 6:05 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mar 26, 3:52 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I should have added that this would apply to the phone's *foreground* >> > application only >> >> I knew I shouldn't have compared it to a race situation... bad >> analogy! >> >> Here's a better example: Imagine you're running Linux and the program >> you're interested in is running slow. Why not just go set your nice >> level to get all the processor time? >> >> Anyone who's a Linux or Unix administrator type at all just got >> it. ;) >> >> > Or at least something that allows the foreground app to get a very >> > high priority and resource allowance from the operating system to >> > minimize the influence of non-essential (background) applications. >> >> Exactly. But running our foreground app EXCLUSIVELY is just out of the >> question, for reasons which should be clear by now. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
