Back in February, I installed a modified Dalvik library that included a JIT onto my trusty T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream). While any noticeable improvements are likely caused by a placebo effect, the benchmarks do not lie. Even on my G1, the oldest Android device released to the public, the JIT shaved a few seconds off [...]
I have always been interested in efficiency and performance. So much, in fact, that when I finished installing three different trunk (latest source code) builds of Firefox (3.5.6, 3.6, and 3.7), I just had to compare their JavaScript performance with that of Chromium. I have heard that the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine got some performance boosts [...]
Last night, I found out that one of my dad’s friends got a new phone, the Hero. Since I’m the resident Android guy around here (I <3 the G1), he wanted me to show him all the cool stuff about it. He hadn’t even linked a Google account with his device, so he didn’t know [...]
