First impressions with Android and BFS.

Yesterday I tried out the newest version of Cyanogen’s experimental branch of his ROM, which includes a lot of new features and code from Donut, but also a lot of nice Linux kernel tweaks such as BFS, which is a scheduler aimed towards slow hardware. It seems that it looks up to it’s promise because the experience with the Linux kernel with BFS was pretty good.

Everything about the whole system feels a lot snappier. Menues are not choppy, scrolling the app list is fluid, switching between the desktops is painless aswell. Execution of applications is very fast aswell! I really hope that Google implements BFS or a simillar scheduler in their future kernel releases, because this really kicks ass. And with the new HTC Tattoo comming with a more optimized CPU, I think it will kick a lot off buttocks when it gets combined with a better scheduler.

So all in all. BFS is awesome. If it does not work for you as I state, you might be doing something wrong :D

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Posted by ostebaronen at 3:01 pm on September 10th, 2009. 4 comments... »
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4 comments.

  1. Really?

    I on the other hand find BFS to be a hype that isn’t ready for the market yet. Every ROM I have run (have tried several, including CM 1.4.x-branch) on my HTC Magic has been snappy in the front but sluggish as hell on background processes. That has rendered a system that is slow when switching between apps, hangs/FCs lots of background processes, and a phone that feels like it’s running on glue.

    Experiment all you want with BFS, I don’t want it in my phone just yet.

    Posted by kenell on October 3rd, 2009.

  2. The new BFS 300 patch offers more stability and better battery life, since CM 4.1.11.1 everything has been running smooth. I don’t get why you are having these problems, but in general older CM versions had some issues with FC’s and crashes, newest build is good though.

    Posted by Tomasz Cielecki on October 4th, 2009.

  3. I am running Evil Hero on a MyTouch 3G / Magic. With BFS 302, this thing is as fast as Cyan’s roms and that’s saying a lot for hero on a mt3g. And my partitioned microsd is a class 2. Jump on it fellas!

    Posted by Sony on October 7th, 2009.

  4. What caused you the misconception that BFS is “aimed towards slow hardware”? It’s aimed toward making making everything run faster on all hardware.

    Posted by Darxus on November 20th, 2009.

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