Thread: 62 apps at once challenge
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2010-04-12 , 08:40
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Originally Posted by cashclientel View Post
@JMacalinao - you'd never be able to get 62 browsers open on the N900 (and that is a challenge!)

With that many apps "open" the system would be running so slowly you'd be faster to have the apps open and close as you use them (i.e. normal behavior).

it's an interesting proof of concept though.
Hehe... Yeah, just tried it. I can't get past ~30 browser windows without the task switcher lagging so bad. But also take note that I visited sites that are pretty heavy in Javascript (like Twitter), so I can probably get about 40 of them if they're regular HTML pages. I've also tried opening all of my ~50 conversations, and I was able to, but when I added other apps, the task switcher stopped responding properly (e.g. clicks getting recognized as drags). I got past 62, but the task switcher froze so bad I had to close the apps through xterm.

By the way, my device is using the XLV/ideal kernel running at [500,850].

So, it's not that the N900 can't open 62+ apps, the task switcher just does a poor job handling them when there's a lot of them. Maybe if we have a different version of the task switcher (maybe a task switcher without the real-time app previews?), we can probably get 100 apps running without a hitch.
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