>From my personal experience, yes. By putting the code that allocates or calls the GC in a remote service (using a different process) helped increase frame rate for a game I'm developing.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'attaching using a view' by what I do is just use a callback function and pass to it a byte[] array. I'm not familiar with the insides of android, but it apparently doesn't trigger a GC on the View activity/process. However, it has been quite a while and the game has been running smoothly since so I haven't bothered to double check if a GC is triggered in the View process. Perhaps someone else can confirm. 2010/5/18 Gabriel Simões <[email protected]>: > Let me try to make things a little bit simpler here .... > > If one process allocate/deallocate memory and this triggers the system > to call Garbage Collector, does this GC operation impacts other > processes? > This way, in a situation where you create a remote service and attach > to it using a view, if this view triggers GC will the service´s > performance suffer any impact? > > Thanks > > On 18 maio, 11:57, Gabriel Simões <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Since yesterday I got an idea running around my mind but I don´t know >> first if it would work, and then how "hack" it would be. >> >> People who develop audio processing/recording/playback apps for >> Android know how hard it is to maintain GC away from our critical >> paths: playing and recording audio. >> Processing must be as optimized as possible not only to save batery >> and use less CPU, but also not to create new objects/allocate new >> memory spaces ... this all to avoid GC at all cost. Well, we have >> knowledge and this we can handle (mostly). >> But what about all the other processing that happens from and for user >> interaction? Media players display images, some apps display ads, ... >> and sometimes we have to avoid releasing features to the users just to >> maintain our critical paths free from GC. >> >> Yesterday I stumbled upon an article about remote services and this >> led me to a doubt: if they can run as a different process, would a GC >> call from my activity impact the performance of my remote service? I >> really don´t know how GC works on the Dalvik so this may be a dumb >> question. If so, I apologize. >> >> Thanks for your help, >> Gabriel >> >> -- >> 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 >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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 -- http://diastrofunk.com, http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx, ~Isaiah 55:8-9 -- 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
