By: Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com), August 18, 2014 2:11 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on August 17, 2014 10:31 am wrote:
> I admit to not following Android obsessively, but I love and look for a good schadenfreude experience
> as much as anyone, and I'm unaware of any major (or even minor) disasters in the Android phone space
> that can be traced back to the ARM weaker memory model and developers not properly handling it.
The state of Android vendor-provided drivers ranges from foul smelling trash to cosmic horror. In general the quality is so bad that any bugs that might arise from ARM's memory model are likely to drown below the enormous mass of other bugs you're likely to encounter.
> I admit to not following Android obsessively, but I love and look for a good schadenfreude experience
> as much as anyone, and I'm unaware of any major (or even minor) disasters in the Android phone space
> that can be traced back to the ARM weaker memory model and developers not properly handling it.
The state of Android vendor-provided drivers ranges from foul smelling trash to cosmic horror. In general the quality is so bad that any bugs that might arise from ARM's memory model are likely to drown below the enormous mass of other bugs you're likely to encounter.
