For a short lived application startup time would be important. But for a long lived application that isn't restarted often it isn't as important. I never liked serialization anyways. There is better and faster ways to persist your application's state to disk.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:54 PM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Startup is actually one of the most performance critical parts of an > application, since it directly impacts how quickly the user can move > to your application from somewhere else, and if that takes a > noticeable amount of time (you really want to keep it < 1 second) then > they are much less likely to use your app. > > On Oct 7, 3:33 pm, "Josh Roesslein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah I'm not sure how the performance of serialization is on the Dalvik > VM. > > If you are just using serialization during startup/shutdown speed > shouldn't > > matter too much. > > But if you are loading/unloading objects a lot during the runtime of the > > application, it might be a bit sluggish. > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:17 PM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It does support it, but I would generally recommend against it because > > > Java serialization is slooooow. > > > > > It's hard to address the original question because there are basically > > > no details. > > > > > On Oct 7, 2:34 pm, "Josh Roesslein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I believe Android's Java VM fully supports Java Serialization. > > > > Trying Googling for "java serialization" and you should find plenty > of > > > > tutorials > > > > to get you started. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Nemat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me about object serialization in Android?? > > > > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
