wraggster
June 10th, 2012, 22:20
The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster (http://liliputing.com/2012/06/android-is-about-to-get-a-lot-faster-thanks-to-linaro.html) than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP (Android Open Source Project).' Adds Argon: "Note that there are CPU optimizations only since they have only access to binary blobs for GPU code.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/06/10/138214/linaro-tweaks-speed-up-android-by-up-to-100-percent
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/06/10/138214/linaro-tweaks-speed-up-android-by-up-to-100-percent