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Originally Posted by JulmaHerra View Post
Previous can be mitigated with some serious optimization to some degree, however, being on top of X brings additional limitations that cannot be fixed, nor mitigated (hence Sailfish was designed on top of Wayland)
Really? Nokia N9/Meego Harmattan was also X11-based, and was much quicker than other dual-core androids
You really don't know what you are talking about, because most X11(including all GTK and Qt bases) apps doesn't use X11 calls, but rather XRENDER and OpenGL.
MAEMO for N900 was total mess being mix of different libraries inclusing GTK and Qt, so it needed more memory requirement on such memory-limited device. Harmattan was nearly Qt-exclusive(and got more RAM), so it was pretty quick for heavy multitasking(which was unavailable in iOS/Android in those times[and after intruducation on Adnroid, it wasn't real running prcesses pararelly, but more like kde/gnome sessions. Apps were freezed, state saved, and later restored).

N9's Harmattan was best-ever, state of the art mobile operating system. The only problem was that, it was announced dead even before n9 retailing, but still selling well(and better than Lumia, that was announced as supported in long-term replacement for it)
 

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