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Google's Native Client forges aheadGoogle's Native Client forges aheadPosted Jul 29, 2011 11:04 UTC (Fri) by appie (subscriber, #34002)Parent article: Google's Native Client forges ahead
Any information on what effect these jit etc. optimizations and native client stuff has on battery life ? With mobile devices becoming more and more important, speed is nice but longer battery life is king
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I'm not so sure... Posted Jul 29, 2011 12:52 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] This is not really true, if you'll think about it: the most frugal OS of them all (Symbian) is dying. But in general... I think NaCl is comparable to frugal JIT (like Dalvik's one) and way more power-effective then other Web technologies. The reason is simple: JavaScript (and ActionScript) are highly dynamic language and it's hard to avoid doing lots of additional work. But all that potential can be easily wasted if the app is written by sub-par programmer.
Google's Native Client forges ahead Posted Jul 31, 2011 1:08 UTC (Sun) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
Palm V could survive four weeks on one battery charge. A modern PDA/smartphone is lucky if it can survive eight hours. The market has spoken, and it values features more than battery life.
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