bitmapbrother
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
When are you going to lift the shadow banning and post limiting on me? It's been how long?
Comment · 5 years ago
>Qualcomm is only able to obstruct in this way because Linux doesn’t keep the kernel driver ABI stable for any fixed period of time.
The Linux kernel used by Android is based on the LTS version that now has 6 years of support [1]. So by the time an OEM releases a new device the support window will be about 4 years. Google has also been working to stabilize the Android kernel HAL so that OS updates don't require a brand new kernel [2]. Because of these developments Android devices can now offer 4 years of support [3].
>Windows Phone 10 was actually in a position to support phones for years and even got Qualcomm onboard. It’s a shame the platform was never competitive, and they’d burned all their goodwill on the 7 and 8 fiascos.
This is pure speculation and I highly doubt Qualcomm would have invested the time and money, to support a platform that had no chance of success, beyond their obligated 2 years of support at the time.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-users-rejoic...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plan...
[3] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/12/treble-plu...
Comment · 5 years ago
Qualcomm is allowing their GPU drivers to be updated via the Play Store. This started in 2020 so it will only apply to Qualcomm SoC's released from 2020 onwards.
Comment · 5 years ago
I would say Unreal is the biggest game engine in terms of pervasiveness. Also, isn't C# just used as a scripting language in Unity? All of the heavy lifting is dome by the C/C++ backend.
Comment · 5 years ago
>After reaching that initial 10ms goal, we re-aimed and set our target on something more ambitious. Namely that a GC pause should never be longer than 1ms. Starting with JDK 16, I’m happy to report that we’ve reached that goal too. ZGC now has O(1) pause times. In other words, they execute in constant time and do not increase with the heap, live-set, or root-set size (or anything else for that matter). Of course, we’re still at the mercy of the operating system scheduler to give GC threads CPU time. But as long as your system isn’t heavily over-provisioned, you can expect to see average GC pause times of around 0.05ms (50 µs) and max pause times of around 0.5ms (500 µs).
Very impressive and well done. Should Azul be worried?
Comment · 5 years ago
Isn't reference counting a form of garbage collection, though? If you want performance then Objective C and Swift aren't the languages you should be using. There's a reason why Apple recommends C/C++ if you need your code to run as fast as possible and also the reason why the high majority of professional games are written in C++ with either a thin Objective C / Swift wrapper.
Also, you can compile both Java and Kotlin to native images with Graal.
It's comedic how these far left wing publications continue to call it an "insurrection" when there were no weapons used and the only person killed was a woman that was assassinated by a trigger happy mall cop whose identity has still not been revealed.