Thread: Multitasking on Android
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sicelo is offline sicelo
2016-06-28 , 06:26
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#34
Originally Posted by wicket View Post
This is not true. If a process is idling in memory, it will not consume any additional power unless it is swapped out. Saving and restoring state requires copying data from RAM to non-volatile storage and back again. This action is similar to swapping and does consume extra power. When Android restarts an app from scratch and restores its state, it's quite likely that it uses more power due to extra instruction cycles and copy operations than swapping normally would.


This is not entirely true either:

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/0...ic-vs-dynamic/
Awesome. So those of us crying for 'real' multitasking aren't getting the worst deal after all

but then ... it could be that more recent android builds have overcome some of the issues raised on that post? I notice that was 2012.

Either way, I definitely like Maemo's multitasking better than anything else available on other mobile devices that I have had access to use/test.
 

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