[Development] [BB++] Now is 3.5x faster than Node.JS

[Phil Bouchard]

I'll try my example on the Android as well tonight. But it sounds like we
have the same issue.

Bernhard B <schluchti at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am just a user of Qt, so please take the following please with a grain of
> salt:
> 
> I haven't started debugging my application yet, but for some reason my
> application laggs on Android, but works fine on iOs. It's a listview with a
> pretty complex delegate. On Android you can see clearly that it laggs, but
> on iOs it's smooth. But again, I haven't profiled it yet, so it most
> probably could be related to the complex bindings in the delegate and not
> due to the GC.
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017 schrieb Phil Bouchard :
> 
>> On 07/25/2017 02:50 AM, Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
>> 
>>> On 25 July 2017 at 03:09, Phil Bouchard <philippeb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That's why you have to put chances on your side. Regarding the GC all you
>>>> have to do is look at the logs:
>>>> http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2012/06/on-android-garbage-
>>>> collection-can-kill-you
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What killed the performance in this case was not GC but bad design,
>>> unfit for the platform. Read the article through, and the comments. In
>>> the end, the author got comparable performance on Android and desktop
>>> (while Android was still using GC). Additionally, the post is from 5
>>> years ago, a lot could have been improved in that period.
>>> 
>> 
>> Here's another article that is 2 years old only and laggy performance
>> still seems to be a problem:
>> https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/detect-and-resolve-perfo
>> rmance-problems-on-android--cms-24058
>> 
>> You need to understand that: "No matter how innovative and useful your
>> Android app is, if it’s laggy, prone to freezing, or hogs memory, no one is
>> going to want to use it."
>> 
>> Mind you, the bb++ idea seems tempting. JS is not the nicest language
>>> around, it would be cool to have an alternative, esp. if the learning
>>> curve is small and benefits large. I'd just prefer it to be compiled
>>> at compile time (at the same time when C++ part is compiled), cause
>>> shipping the compiler with an app seems wasteful at best.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm here to help and hopefully Qt can take a lead against world renowned
>> web engines at the same time. As far as the compiler is concerned then,
>> worse case, I know there are better alternatives than G++ in compilation
>> speed and the overall size it takes.
>> 
>> I didn't have a chance to create documentation yesterday but I will this
>> week.
>> 
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