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Google Acquires Android Performance Startup FlexyCore For A Reported $23 Million

40 pointsby sciwizover 11 years ago

6 comments

ihswover 11 years ago
Lesson learned: create a compelling product for Android developers and Google will acquire you in a heartbeat.
plackemacherover 11 years ago
I wish I could find more information about them. All I can find are videos showcasing the performance improvements but without any explanation.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FlexyCore/videos" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;FlexyCore&#x2F;videos</a>
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VeejayRampayover 11 years ago
French startup at that. Happy to see that there&#x27;s at least <i>some</i> innovation going on in this country.
devxover 11 years ago
Hoping it will appear in Android 5.0. Six months or so should be enough to implement this, right?<p>Also, they should probably acquire these guys, too:<p><a href="http://www.genymotion.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genymotion.com&#x2F;</a><p>The emulator is also one of Android&#x27;s longstanding problems, and it would be nice if they fixed that once and for all, too.<p>I&#x27;m also hoping that with the arrival of powerful ARMv8 hardware in the couple of years, maybe they&#x27;ll make their SDK for ARM, too, so it doesn&#x27;t even need to be emulated in x86.
leeoniyaover 11 years ago
wonder if it&#x27;s similar to Linaro Android [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_NR_goi6iA" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=F_NR_goi6iA</a>
Zigurdover 11 years ago
This feels like an &quot;acquhire.&quot; I haven&#x27;t yet seen a performance booster get any traction with OEMs. This sounds more-promising than Myriad&#x27;s idea of replacing the whole VM with their Java VM.<p>Optimization in a battery powered device is tricky. After the initial work on Android&#x27;s interesting JIT strategy, I have not heard much else about boosting performance. Developers who run into performance limits are stuck &quot;doing it by hand&quot; with native code and Renderscript. Maybe this signals a revival of interest in extracting better performance from Android&#x27;s runtime environment.
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