A quick-and-dirty throwaway proof-of-concept that you use to measure
the actual impact of the proposed change is actually a very decent
engineering method in this case. E.g. hardcode a cache on the SD card
and see if it's faster to load from that cache than from internal
storage.

Cheers,
JBQ

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Freepine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, a patch would always be better to prove your idea:) We should always be
> prepared to take the risk of preparing some code to prove our ideas:)
> That's pretty a programmer way:) Just kidding~
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]>
> 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.
>>
>> Why does it have to read every app installed to render the apps on the
>> home screen? It's scanning for the launch intents, right - can't it
>> persist the desktop icons into a cache and rebuild that cache when the
>> "app installed/uninstalled" intent fires? For bonus points that cache
>> could be on the sdcard.
>>
>> (i know i know ... i should write a patch .....)
>>
>
>
> >
>



-- 
Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru
Android Engineer, Google.

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