I’m not trying to be a dick but if you could please count from 1 to 20 seconds out loud and see how long that takes, I would stab myself if I had to do this every time I wanted to just browse my media.
I would love to go to Blizzcon @ 175 a ticket it’s a little pricey and only for real fans since aside from the swag and WCS finals, everything else is pretty much an unknown.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see many tickets for resale at a higher price though, I think the last Blizzcon had a heavy number of scalpers. Interested to see what pops up on eBay this year for itr.
Yea I definitely read about how interface had to be re-prioritized on Android in which I believe by ICS resolved the lag issues that most users were concerned with. I didn’t know there was something like NDK on Android, that seriously makes things easier and better especially if you’re going to make an app that is seriously intensive on the CPU. That’s massive actually. Good to know though for future titles if I decide to port any more native language games, right now I’m leveraging Unity but I figured there was some trick involved in porting the unity into native code, which it ports to Xcode for iOS but I hadn’t yet looked at how it deploys to Android, I suppose it pushes to NDK.
Objective-C lies around the C/C++ spectrum of speed. I think it’s pretty obvious where Apple makes up it’s differences in specs. Until Android phones come with hardware similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava; Android phones will continually create a larger performance gap in specs in order to make up its loss at the language level.
Not saying it hasn’t improved twenty fold, Google writes a mean compiler and JIT that IMO makes the gap for speed in normal applications more or less negligible. You will probably see a bigger difference in video games where coders are making heavy use of your stack and optimizing heap usage. I’m not entirely sure how Java runs on Android, but if it’s similar to Java then I think aside from primitives everything else runs off the heap which can be a heavy handed bottleneck depending on how you architect your game/program.
