Linux gurus toy with Android ICS, make a 100% faster Linaro build and slap it on the Galaxy Nexus

3. pokharkarsaga posted on 12 Jun 2012, 05:25 12 2

thats what actually android should be,a hardware optimizer os and not the hardware junk os.bad news for wp and ios. android now 100% faster than wp and ios and itself.fastest os of all time.still much can be done in android.

4. SprintPower posted on 12 Jun 2012, 05:37 15 0

holy critburgers! Lazy Google bastages better get off their overpaid backsides and clean up the dang code!

5. ibap posted on 12 Jun 2012, 06:13 7 5

Let me guess - bloatware removal alone accounted for half of the speedup?

8. tedkord posted on 12 Jun 2012, 06:26 7 0

This looks interesting, google should definitely give it a look. On the flipside, I've read in the forums that users who've installed the cm9 linaro build actually saw their synthetic bench's drop. I remember on fellow stated his quads dropped 400 points from the official cm9. I hope it is as golden as the devs state, and that google then incorporates it into the next update. Like I've always said, dev community > corporate programmers.

10. AbhiD posted on 12 Jun 2012, 06:47 1 6

Yesterday everyone just bashed what intel said abt android..., but now this is a proof to all those that android is actually a half baked OS which could run twice better than actual if optimized properly by google. And all this points out that android isn't just fully ready for those HEXA CORE OR OCTA CORE processors...

15. BrandT posted on 12 Jun 2012, 08:27 0 0

AOKP also has a test build of Linaro with their latest build 38.

17. lzsbleach posted on 12 Jun 2012, 08:37 2 0

Personally I think things are not going to get any better for the iphone, they are basically at there limit. But Android has so much ahead of them and probably far away from there limit, theres still alot of room for improvement. We all know what happens to mobile Os's when there at there limit right, they wont go far.

18. Fuego84 posted on 12 Jun 2012, 09:05 1 0

I think thats Google's game plan with android, I mean what sells more of a product than to claim its new version of the OS is better than the previous one.

19. jove39 posted on 12 Jun 2012, 11:09 0 0

Think I'll sell my sgs2 for gnex :)

20. tedkord posted on 12 Jun 2012, 13:09 0 0

ToThis isn't all that uncommon. Modern coding is usually not well optimized and cleaned up. Back in the days when computers had a few kilobytes of memory and no hard drives, programs had to be compact. With modern devices, that's no longer a concern. And with something large like an operating system, where dozens of different sections are each coded by a different group, and tied together by other groups, you have a lot of inefficiency. This has been a concern for many years, I remember reading an article about it at least a decade ago.

Any large program (game, operating system, etc...) will be rife with unoptimized coding and bloat.

21. ilia1986 posted on 12 Jun 2012, 13:12 0 0

This is why Android will never die. Community >>>>> Corporation. That's right.

22. remixfa posted on 12 Jun 2012, 13:17 2 0

i love what the mod community can do with already great software. I really hope El Goog takes a look at this and sees where they can integrate code.

If nothing else, with Cyanogenmod taking a look at it, that means Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) has his hands on it.. hopefully that means he can take it to samsung (he works there!) and get them to implement it on a Galaxy update.

If its really that big of a difference, it needs to be spread around!

23. networkdood posted on 12 Jun 2012, 13:25 0 0

most ICS roms I have tried are faster than the carrier/manufacturer version - I hope I see a version of this for the DROID RAZR.