Not really; if anything, Dalvik has at least one additional abstraction layer over a "native SF app".
My experience is completely contrary to yours, anyway.
Then why do Android Apps in AD not suffer any kind of performance penalty and work nominally, but Sailfish apps the opposite (and UT not).
No your experience is not. Everyone's is the same.
I see we're back to pretending that major problems do not exist. I seem to recall you were party to the original discussions about this, and had no answer for it then, and don't now.
@MartinK
Ubuntu Touch's UI needs serious work. That's slow / stuttery. Native apps, or more particularly the browser are very quick and make proper use of all available resources - moreso than in Android, vastly more so than SF.
Then why do Android Apps in AD not suffer any kind of performance penalty and work nominally, but Sailfish apps the opposite (and UT not).
No your experience is not. Everyone's is the same.
I see we're back to pretending that major problems do not exist. I seem to recall you were party to the original discussions about this, and had no answer for it then, and don't now.
@MartinK
Ubuntu Touch's UI needs serious work. That's slow / stuttery. Native apps, or more particularly the browser are very quick and make proper use of all available resources - moreso than in Android, vastly more so than SF.
That's because the whole OS is a browser
edit: love how your experience trumps everyone elses, here a vid of iOS (so quick and instant) reddit app launching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE9J75POtYE
0:19-0:22 to get the initial screen, 2 second on Jolla with quickditt, totally slow and useless and on non-anecdote level, bluefoot waits 5 seconds for the quickditt to launch (sure, no idea if it has more features, but surely trumps sailfish, it's just slow I read on a forum)
It's (not) surprising how one can get to places just by asking nicely.
Opening apps in Jolla and general use is quite fast even with Jolla 1. Based on "much" feeling with daily use with 3 phones. Iphone 6 plus and Jolla 1, SailfishOs port on Oneplus One.
Default browser is "slow". How much optimization is default browser lacking compared to Firefox? etc. https://wiki.mozilla.org/E10s
Then why do Android Apps in AD not suffer any kind of performance penalty and work nominally, but Sailfish apps the opposite (and UT not).
No your experience is not. Everyone's is the same.
I see we're back to pretending that major problems do not exist. I seem to recall you were party to the original discussions about this, and had no answer for it then, and don't now.
@MartinK
Ubuntu Touch's UI needs serious work. That's slow / stuttery. Native apps, or more particularly the browser are very quick and make proper use of all available resources - moreso than in Android, vastly more so than SF.
Any actual link to the details though? I'm not just citation needing, I'm actually interested to see some technical details of your problem, if there are any available. I've asked around people running Sailfish on 4-core phones such as the Fairphone 2 if they've seen it be limited to 2-cores like you said, but they don't really. Everyone seems to think that Sailfish apps perform better than AD.
I don't see the point in downplaying Sailfish for Ubuntu Touch or vice versa. They're practically siblings, and need to support each other if they're going to stand the slightest chance against the big players. They're both so similar that they can share app sources, and they're targeting different markets so they needn't feel threatened by each other. This bickering is futile.
Default browser is "slow". How much optimization is default browser lacking compared to Firefox? etc. https://wiki.mozilla.org/E10s
SFOS Browser has been using E10s since the beginning, so now that its close to being used in Firefox by default we might see some more progress on optimization of it.
