Allistar

nospam wrote:

> In article <bpydncOMz_TNTuPRnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Allistar
> <me@hiddenaddress.com> wrote:
>
>> >> it appears on Cydia. I was thinking how annoying it is to keep closing
>> >> down all the open "links" on the multitasking bar one by one. Just
>> >> popped up an app that closes them all at once with one push of my
>> >> choice. Nothing major, but one more reason I'm happy being jailbroken.
>> >
>> > I don't bother to close them; don't see the need.
>>
>> I would have expected a running app to be automatically closed after a
>> certain amount of time of not being used (say, 5 minutes?) What's the
>> logic in leaving them open (or at least, having them appear in the
>> running tasks list)?
>
> apps are suspended, so it doesn't matter if it's 5 minutes or 5 days.
> they are not running, except for specific types of apps such as
> background audio or gps navigation.
>
> the list is not running tasks, it's recently used apps. the user might
> want to go back to an app they used the day or week before, and since
> it's suspended, it instantly resumes. if it had been shut down, it
> would need to relaunch, which is slower.

Which implies that every app on that list is consuming a certain amount of
resources. It would be nice to be able to control it so those resources were
freed when the app is closed. When I run an app for the first time on my
iPhone, I don't notice any delay - it's pretty much instant.
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