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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. 100% faster, uhm no by RichMan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not even neutrino's are that fast.

    100% faster would mean it takes ZERO time to do something.

    The new code might be 50% faster than the old code. (Using old code as time reference).
    At the same time the old code would be 100% slower than the new code (Using the new code as the time reference).

    But there is no way the new code is 100% faster than the old code, as that requires 0 time for the new code.

    This is not nitpicking, this is correctly expressing relative numbers. If things are not expressed correctly they meaningless and unusable.