[OT] Why mobile web apps are slow

[renoX]

On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 13:33:15 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2013-07-09 18:12:25 +0000, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at 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.