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kweizayesterday at 10:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Static tiles on a watch is the right call. Tried dynamic rendering on a constrained device once and pan/zoom got eaten by GC pauses every frame.


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tomaskafkatoday at 11:50 AM

That might be right - Garmin is doing the best they can with vector maps, but in Apple land, 3 fps rendering wouldn't fly.

timojaaskyesterday at 11:31 PM

There’s no GC on watchOS, it uses ARC