liftedplane
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Yeah, I thought the same thing, this thing will be HUGE. There are those that are saying that event the GN is too big and it doesn't have buttons. It took me a while to warm up to 4.3, please don't start making them even bigger not.
Yeah I agree, they need more RAM, I'm betting that's bottlenecking more then the clock speed. As for not raising the speeds, maybe they're already at the limit. Once you hit the max practical clock speed you just start adding cores, just like they're doing with PCs.
it's not just about adding more cores because the clock speed has reached a practical point, it's about increasing efficiency, if they continue to raise the clock speed without making the TDP more efficient, they will end up creating processors that can only be cooled by liquid nitrogen.
not sure if you OC at all, but the only extremely effective way to overclock a cpu is by raising the multiplier, that creates more speed with very little heat increase, however to high of a multiplier and the ram cannot keep up, then you have to put a divider on the ram which can only go so high. you can then increase the "FSB" of the CPU to get more speed without affecting the ram much however then you have to start adding more volts onto the CPU which in turn creates more heat that needs to be dissipated. The dual cores they are creating now are literally hundreds of times more efficient than the first quad cores, making them do more with less... therefore they don't need to increase the clock speed.
as for bottlenecks with ram on android I found this Android Memory Analysis - Texas Instruments Embedded Processors Wiki which states at the bottom in the summary
After considering memory analysis for android system; minimal memory requirement to run basic android features (standard android source form Google Inc.) are mentioned below.
Reducing run time memory further lead android system to kill unwanted/background activities and processes very frequently, which impact user experience for which android is known for.
- Boot time memory : 128 MB
- Run time memory : 256 MB
Disclaimer:
Memory numbers mentioned above are with respect to standard android distribution from Google Inc. with all basic features working smoothly. However one can always remove unwanted libs, applications, services etc. and make custom android, which can run on lower memory than specified in this document.
meaning that while most companies add on to android, 1GB (especially the new ones running ddr2) is over 4 times the amount you need to run just the OS... I cannot think of any single app that would take the rest of that. android is incredibly efficient at multitasking, and with the community addons and optimizations (Th3ory roms version of unthrottled comes to mind) memory usage on 1GB ddr2 ram won't be an issue for quite some time. bump it up to 2gb, give us more storage space, and you're good to go.