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The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't

Posted by Soulskill on from the hop-on-one-foot-for-better-connectivity dept.

jfruh writes "When Android was first introduced, it got much of its buzz in the open source community, and despite it being a mobile juggernaut backed by huge companies, it remains an open source project that anyone can submit code to. Thus, when a community patch that claimed to reduce the lag that still plagues the platform was created, it rocketed around various community code sites and was widely praised. The only problem: it didn't actually speed Android up."

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  1. How important is "true" randomness, anyway? by 14erCleaner · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the problem is that they can't generate "random" number fast enough, maybe they could just return 42 when the entropy pool is empty.

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    1. Re:How important is "true" randomness, anyway? by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, they should return 4 - it's guaranteed to be random.

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    2. Re:How important is "true" randomness, anyway? by networkzombie · · Score: 3, Funny

      The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

    3. Re:How important is "true" randomness, anyway? by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Funny

      "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." - Robert Coveyou.

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  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    but sent using Android, so...