Android Guy Weekly: How Many Cores is Enough | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 13 февраля 2012, 3:31

These days we have smartphones and tablets with single cores, dual-cores, and we're talking about quad-cores. What is a "core"? What does it do? Why do we need so many? And how many cores is "enough"?

That's what we'll find out in this week's Android Guy Weekly!

Contents:
0:30 - Terminology
1:25 - How can things be made "faster"?
1:49 - Subway analogy
4:20 - Parent and Children tasks
5:35 - Applying the analogy to phones and tabs
6:00 - Battery constraints
7:11 - Dual-core versus dual-cpu
8:50 - Smartphones versus small tablets
9:35 - 10" tablets
12:00 - My thoughts: How much is enough?
14:10 - Your turn!

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