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Both Facebook and Netflix implemented their eponymous apps with Web. Despite spending millions of dollars, neither of them could achieve an iPhone-like user experience (60 frames per second and less than 100ms response to user inputs) on anything less powerful than a system-on-chip (SoC) with four ARM Cortex-A9 cores.
In contrast, numerous products like infotainment systems, in-flight entertainment systems, harvester terminals and home appliances prove that you can achieve an iPhone-like user experience (UX) on single-core Cortex-A8 SoCs. Our above-mentioned manufacturer HAM Inc. (renamed for the sake of confidentiality) verified these results by building both a Web and Qt prototype.
In this white paper, Burkhard Stubert explains how he could save one of the world's largest home appliance manufacturers millions of Euros by choosing Qt over HTML. The secret? Qt scales down to lower-end hardware a lot better, without sacrificing user experience.
With a five times smaller footprint, four to eight times lower RAM requirements and a more efficient rendering flow than HTML, Qt provides faster start-up times and maintains the cherished 60fps and 100ms response time, where HTML would struggle. The calculations show that being able to just downgrade your SoC by just one tier like this, Qt can reduce your hardware costs by over 53%.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:02PM (6 children)
What does this even mean? Is the footprint 20% of HTMLs? Then why not, for the sake of the math deprived, just say "1 fifth the size of the HTML app". Cuz all Americans know what a fifth is....
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Snow on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:25PM (3 children)
Exactly. So if the html is 10kb, then this would be ( 5 * 10 = 50 ) 50kb smaller than that.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:35PM (2 children)
No, dats dere dat Newfie math youse doing dere buddy!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:41AM (1 child)
I take it you haven't heard of Common Core then, eh?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday February 23 2018, @02:48AM
Isn't that where the politicos realize the common core is 70% of the population (albeit with 10% of the wealth) and decide to raise taxes on them, cuz fairness and spread the pain?
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:09AM
Yup! 750ml of distilled good times (and for about half of those who drink it, time for a fight or to beat one's wife/girlfriend). Booyah!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Friday February 23 2018, @04:14AM
In the context of "times", smallness is the reciprocal if largeness.
If you view smallness as the negative of largeness, in a "times" context, then you'll get silly results.
Those who use "N times less", however, should be forcefully voltage-cured, as they've mixed the multiplicative "times" with the additive (inverse) "less". Ambiguity ensues.
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