June 21, 2009 at 10:23 am
It's fast. I've been comparing its performance with that of the iPhone 3G, and it's been very impressive indeed. The first thing I tested was Sunset. The thing I got the clearest numbers for was loading loading time of the home screen version when it's hitting cache. There are many numbers across multiple dimensions here, so let me just illustrate with a very scientific chart.
While it might be a bit tricky to follow so much data, the gist of it is thus: Sunset on the iPhone 3G constitutes some level of awesomeness (or LOA), let's say one unit. Sunset on the iPhone 3G S has a higher LOA due to its shorter loading time. In fact, and perhaps counterintuitively, as the loading time decreases, the LOA increases by the reciprocal of the decrease (one half the loading time equals two times the LOA). Therefore, we can see that the iPhone 3G S causes Sunset to have two units of LOA, a 2x increase over the iPhone 3G. I will leave it to the reader to consider that as the loading time approaches zero, the LOA approaches infinity. Or, in other words, it approaches Chuck Norris. And like how the loading time can never actually reach zero, likewise can the LOA never actually reach infinity, AKA Chuck Norris' LOA.