On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 13:33:15 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2013-07-09 18:12:25 +0000, Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org>
said:
A bit off-topic, but well worth reading,
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
What I'm retaining from this is that garbage collectors are
wasteful. They're viable if you have a lot of RAM to spare.
But I think that this is why newer Android phone have a lot of
RAM: a GS4 has 2GB of RAM.
They cause noticeable hiccups at unpredictable times unless you
have a battery-hungry overpowered CPU that makes pauses
impossible to notice.
Yes and "pauseless GCs" have even higher CPU usage..
renoX
And while those pauses are not that bad for non-realtime apps,
all iOS apps are considered realtime by Apple because you don't
want hiccups messing smooth scrolling and animations.
Also, non-deterministic deallocation makes it hard for an app
to fit within a fixed memory limit.
