9 Jul
2013
9 Jul
'13
4:13 a.m.
Morrie Wyatt wrote:
Not to mention that the resulting code without the extra checks is going to be smaller. This would have been a concern with early Android devices that were much more memory and storage constrained than is typical today.
Really? I didn't think smartphones ever had less than, oh, 128MB of RAM. That's enough to run a *current* generation Debian system (though admittedly not with all the GUI chaff). And stuff like OpenWRT happily works on 4/4MB systems and busybox deals with checking for permissions just fine. According to Wikipedia, the first retailed android was HTC Dream, which has 256/192MB. That's more than enough for a few or-dies.