[ale] OT Google's cute animation drives tablet cpu hard

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

On 6/21/2013 10:49, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:

> Just running an Acer A500 Android tablet with Dolphin web browser.
> According to a quick search on the web, the tablet has a dual core, 1000
> MHz, ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and 1 GB ram.  They just upgraded the Dolphin
> software, and it seems slower than before at loading pages.  I cannot
> say how the old Dolphin would react to this gif file since I've never
> had a chance to test that.
>
> This animated gif doesn't seem to bother my Firefox on my pc at all.  Of
> course, my smallest pc that I normally use has a dual core 2 Ghz (I
> think) pentium cpu and 8 GB of ram.

So open Google's page on Chrome or Firefox on the tablet and see how 
their rendering engines do.  If the CPU still pegs then there's a 
fundamental problem.  If the CPU behaves normally then Dolphin has a 
rendering problem.