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Linaro Tweaks Speed Up Android, By Up To 100 Percent

Posted by timothy on from the mowing-the-other-guy's-lawn dept.

Argon writes with an excerpt from Liliputing of interest to Android users: "'The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP (Android Open Source Project).' Adds Argon: "Note that there are CPU optimizations only since they have only access to binary blobs for GPU code."

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  1. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    that's where the guys with long hair are!

  2. DBZ reference by Linsaran · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we're building a faster more powerful android now? I wonder if the end result will be an energy draining old man, or a cocky teenager who's destined to become part of a biological super weapon.

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  3. Re:next thing to do... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, if only they used a modern language like .net then we could have pro-programmers working on it. Too bad no one has come out with a phone like that. I bet it would sell great if promoted by someone with a large desktop install base.