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[Kyle Fazzari <kyle.fazzari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/2015 08:07 AM, Alan Bell wrote:
> well things that are shut down and just screenshots go into that out of
> focus blurry mode, then they refresh and come back, as if you have just
> started them, it is quite annoying, but perhaps better than some
> alternatives if you have to kill things to save memory. I am not
> entirely clear why the device is so resource constrained, I used a 1GB
> Intel Atom based desktop for some years and it was fine running lots of
> big applications with the compiz cube and so on with a big screen. The
> phone seems to have less work to do, I guess it doesn't have swap space
> (would a bit of swap be so terrible?) which makes it more aggressive
> towards it's applications.

I would suspect that the phone is perfectly capable of of running all
those applications, but doing so would slaughter your battery life.

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Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)
Software Engineer
Canonical Ltd.
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