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manmal on Jan 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer Sna...

You seem to imply that this kind of performance tuning would carry over to Android, via a Java/NDK bridge? I sincerely doubt that this would yield results as good as SnappyCam.

eurleif on Jan 4, 2014 [–]

Why wouldn't a JPEG compression algorithm work just as well on a different OS?

netrus on Jan 4, 2014 | [–]

It's crafted for specific CPUs - that's much harder to do for Android'S great hardware diversity.

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