24: Chapter 24 System Optimization!

The fourth floor of Fanmi Technology, in the conference room.

"Let's start with the overall progress of the system project..." Zhou Fan looked at the crowd, who were eager and ready to swarm forward, and cut them off before they could speak.

"Alright, I'll go first!" Lin Wenwu stood up and connected an engineering prototype to the display screen.

The next second, a UI loading screen appeared on the screen.

"Over this past month, our Fanmi system has been steadily advancing. The microkernel, various service modules, and the compiler are all on the right track. Furthermore, we have developed a streamlined system architecture and, combined with the UI, have completed the construction of a test version of the system..."

"Although this system is not yet complete, you can still get an idea of some of its functions, as well as the UI style..."

Lin Wenwu's introduction caused the entire large office to suddenly fall silent.

Regardless of how much they wanted to learn from Zhou Fan, they were also filled with curiosity about the progress of the system research.

The large screen gradually lit up, revealing a deep blue background with only a few icons, making it look very simple.

Lei Jun watched with rapt attention. Although they were in an inconspicuous corner of Hangzhou City, he kept a close eye on international news. Samsung and Apple had started promoting their new phones two months ago, with various features and marketing campaigns flying everywhere.

Other major mobile phone manufacturers, fearing being left behind, were also launching new models one after another.

The market was very likely to enter a new round of even more brutal competition. Currently, Fanmi could not participate because, apart from perfecting Fast Charging Technology, they had also started developing their own system. Although the progress was fast, it was impossible to bring it to market in the short term.

Sitting in the conference room, the burly Chu Zeyang was undoubtedly nervous because he was responsible for the UI project. His worry wasn't due to a lack of confidence, but rather because this interface was different from anything he had designed before, incorporating many innovative elements.

These elements had been proposed by the person sitting at the very center of the conference room, and he also believed these were highly innovative and market-appropriate suggestions. It was precisely because of this that he worried the actual presentation would not achieve the effect Zhou Fan expected.

Furthermore, they had been continuously affected by the dynamic loading technology... If that couldn't be resolved, it would be equivalent to the entire UI interface losing its soul.

It was precisely the biggest highlight of the UI project, as well as a major point of innovation, so it had to be resolved...

"Engineer Zhou." Lin Wenwu took the engineering prototype and handed it directly to Zhou Fan.

The engineering prototype was quite large, bigger than two palms put together.

After taking it, Zhou Fan did not waste any time and began to understand its functions.

"The interface style is not bad!" Zhou Fan nodded approvingly as his fingers rapidly tapped and swiped across the screen.

"It's much better than the renderings..."

Lei Jun had only seen the renderings on the UI project team's computers before; this was his first time seeing the actual device's performance, and he couldn't help but nod in agreement.

The style was fashionable and full of a sense of technology!

The colors... the textures... every detail revealed the effort put into innovation!

When holding down an icon, there was even a dynamic effect... This effect wasn't just a simple bounce, but rather felt like ripples spreading out like water droplets, full of novelty...

The sense of interaction was very strong.

It works!

At first glance, Lei Jun's eyes lit up. If he were a consumer, as long as the price was right, he would definitely buy such a phone.

When a new phone is handed to a consumer, the first impression is definitely the interface. A good interface can definitely make more than half of users feel that it's worth the price, and only then do they delve into the functions and performance experience...

Lin Wenwu and Chu Zeyang didn't have the leisure to care about Lei Jun's excitement; instead, they stared intently at Zhou Fan, because Zhou Fan's evaluation was the most important.

"The fluidity is not good enough..." Zhou Fan felt it for a moment and formed a rough data assessment of this engineering prototype in his mind.

Touch latency: 100ms.

Application cold start: 1.5 seconds; hot start: within one second...

Interface scrolling frequency should be at 40FPS, list scrolling should be at 30FPS.

Multitasking switch latency is a bit high, estimated to be over half a second.

These figures were truly below Zhou Fan's expectations, even though this was just an incomplete system and a preliminary UI development.

Lin Wenwu was stunned, because he felt that apart from the slight flaw in the dynamic loading technology, where the water droplet on the icon looked a bit discordant, he really didn't feel there were any other shortcomings.

But even so, it still failed to satisfy Engineer Zhou... Wasn't this standard a bit too high?

"Because of hardware reasons, I'm afraid in the short term..." Lin Wenwu thought for a moment and said.

Actually, it wasn't that they didn't want to continue optimizing, but rather that the effort required for further optimization far outweighed the investment.

"That is not an excuse!" Zhou Fan shook his head, his attitude firm. It was in his nature to either not do something at all or to do it to the absolute limit of his capabilities.

Clearly, the hardware was indeed constraining the dynamic loading technology at the moment, but that didn't mean this was already the limit.

While the hardware couldn't be resolved in the short term, the pace of self-optimization could not stop.

"What we are making is a high-tech, ultimate cost-performance phone. It's not just about the price; in terms of performance, we must also achieve the absolute limit of what we can do!"

"For today's market, this kind of progress can be considered decent, but it's not enough to make people's eyes light up, and it's certainly not an advantage compared to Apple!"

Zhou Fan's words were very direct, without any beating around the bush. This was his personality; he didn't want to waste time and energy on trivial matters.

After all, everyone's energy is limited. If energy is spent on internal friction, that is not something he would consider.

Lin Wenwu fell silent. It wasn't that they didn't want to do better, but they had truly... tried their best...

"You can use an interpolation algorithm upgrade method and add elastic differential equations to achieve a damped vibration effect; the animation fluidity should be able to improve by about twenty percent..."

Zhou Fan noticed the difficulty in Lin Wenwu's eyes and immediately opened the system development terminal. He carefully examined the underlying code and logical structure of each project, and then continued:

"In addition, we can simultaneously optimize the algorithms, optimize the time complexity, and use a space-for-time approach to improve the overall fluidity of the system..."

"There are many such methods. We can also optimize memory access, concurrency and asynchrony, as well as micro-level code optimizations. The specific methods are..."

Actually, the moment Zhou Fan started speaking, Lin Wenwu and Chu Zeyang immediately picked up pens and paper to record it.