Hi Dianne, can you elaborate on that? What exactly has changed? How do you determine what is in the foreground? Is the 5% distributed equally among the background apps? And it only means that there is a 5% cap for the background apps if there is actually a foreground thread asking for juice right?
Great to see work in that area! A bit unrelated, but do you see work in the are of the Dalvik VM, e.g. gc? Is the Donut VM the same as in Android 1.1? On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The new market app shows the screen shots that can be uploaded, so >> it's a nice update. There seems to be a lot of small changes and (this >> could be my imagination) the phone seems to run faster an smoother. >> > > There was a bunch of work done on thread scheduling to ensure that all > background apps together couldn't use more than a small fraction (I believe > we ended up with 5%) of the time that the foreground threads want. It makes > a big difference for example when background syncs are running. > > Glad it's noticeable. :) > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
