Comment by blub

5 years ago

Web technologies are default-slow while native (except Java on Android) is typically default-fast. One needs to go out of their way to create a slow native app, even if it's of course possible.

Slowness is the natural state of web applications and creating a fast web application is much more difficult and requires a senior team with knowledge about browser implementation in order to avoid or work around the performance pitfalls.

I also have the feeling that such performance comparisons are done with the assumption that the apps under test are almost the only thing running on the machine. If every applications were to start 10 processes taking 1 GB of RAM things would get uncomfortably slow.

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neolog  5 years ago

> native (except Java on Android) is typically default-fast

Is anything fast on Android? I have a 2017 Samsung and it's always been slow.

  • GekkePrutser  5 years ago

    Upgrade :) I just upgraded from my Samsung S8 to a OnePlus 8 and the difference is amazing. Apps install in a second again instead of 20 and everything feels snappy.

    I don't upgrade often for financial and environmental reasons but we're not at the stage yet where smartphones are a commodity and performance is stable over the years. There's still performance gains every year and they add up.

  • handrous  5 years ago

    Off and on Android (and iOS) developer here: no, not really, unless you throw top-end hardware at it.