BTW, anyone can contribute to such optimizations. Get an ADP1, grab
the android source code, head over to the android-platform mailing
list, and optimize away.

JBQ (trying hard to make sure that it's possible for anyone to
contribute code to android).

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sounds like HTC used an MLC flash module... bummer :(.
>
> Tell the guy working on the Home screen to minimise writes wherever
> possible. That includes stripping out logging, separate preference
> settings, etc., etc., etc.
>
> Lets hope the next device uses something less focused on cost and more
> focused on performance (especially since I was recently able to buy a
> 1GB SLC flash based SD Card for about 10 USD a from Amazon, so it's not
> a huge cost increase for a distinctly noticeable speed increase ).
>
> Al.
>
> Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote:
>> I know that the author of Home has been under lots of pressure to make
>> it start as quickly as he possibly could, because startup time has
>> consistently been a visible issue.
>>
>> At this point, the only know option is... apps on SD card (no
>> kidding), since the limiting factor when launching Home is the I/O
>> speed, and the G1's internal flash is unbelievably slow.
>>
>> JBQ
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Never said that was a good fix. But - unless i'm wrong? - there is little to
>>> no pressure to make it work right now, and the way to get that is by making
>>> tmob aware that their customers actually care. Or so R. told me (I'm not
>>> going to throw him under the bus here, if he wants his name published as the
>>> author thats up to him :) ..)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course, pinning Home in RAM will mean that the RAM in question
>>>> won't be available to other apps (including the browser), so you'll
>>>> see a lot more of "my background services got interrupted" and "my
>>>> browser ran out of memory and closed".
>>>>
>>>> Home used to be pinned in RAM, and dogfooding found that the user
>>>> experience was worse in that case.
>>>>
>>>> JBQ
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Its not a race condition, unless by "race condition between two threads"
>>>>> you
>>>>> mean "the device gets low on memory and kills all the background apps,
>>>>> then
>>>>> home takes forever to start up again".
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are a tmob customer, you -need- to call 611 and ask/complain
>>>>> about
>>>>> this. Currently, its "behaving as expected" at 10 seconds (yes, its
>>>>> proven
>>>>> that 15 is not unusual, but I'm told the requirements were 10 or less)
>>>>> and
>>>>> until the carrier leans on google its going to stay that way.  (And they
>>>>> don't care about the lists, irc, etc. They care about calls into their
>>>>> support center.)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM, pilkro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have not.  But I've just recently done a factory reset.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't want to have to pull the battery every time I browse the web,
>>>>>> though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 14, 12:34 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 62 that's heading for a record I think.... Have you done the battery
>>>>>>> pull trick?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Al.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pilkro wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Every time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> FWIW, I have 62 installed Market Apps.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jan 14, 12:27 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> David Turner wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> yes, this is a known issue. I believe that the problem has been
>>>>>>>>>> identified (race condition between two threads) and that a fix in
>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> way.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Good to know...but race conditions usually aren't that consistent.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> pilkro: Do you get the 5-15 second delay *every* time or
>>>>>>>>> occasionally?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don't see this problem on my G1, and if it were widespread, I'd
>>>>>>>>> expect
>>>>>>>>> there would be many more complaints about this.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
>>>>>>>>> _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0
>>>>>>>>> Published!
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru
>>>> Android Engineer, Google.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Android Engineer, Google.

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