Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, 2011 @12:27PM from the all-that-dessert-makes-you-sluggish dept.

ozmanjusri writes "New smartphones may be lightweight, compact objects, but their OSs are anything but. Ice Cream Sandwich will need workstations with no less than 16 GB RAM to build the source code, twice the amount Gingerbread needed. It will take 5 hours to compile on a dual quad-core 2+GHz workstation, and need 80GB disk space for all AOSP configs. Android developers are also being warned to be cautious of undocumented APIs: 'In almost every case, there's only one reason for leaving APIs undocumented: We're not sure that what we have now is the best solution, and we think we might have to improve it, and we're not prepared to make those commitments to testing and preservation. We're not claiming that they're "Private" or "Secret" — How could they be, when anyone in the world can discover them? We're also not claiming they're forbidden: If you use them, your code will compile and probably run.'"

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Re:shitty /. summary by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-23 17:56 · Score: 0, Troll

How the fuck did you ever even find Slashdot in the first place if you don't know what "wall time" is? You know this is a computer website, right? You have heard of a "computer" before, yeah?
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?