computational sprinting for smartphones may increase performance?

[sargentmajord]

Hey guys thought this was cool an decided to share it
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=computational-sprinting

 

[Dave12308]

I wonder what the performance impact would be for things such as gaming, where a "long distance runner" approach makes more sense than this so-called "sprinting".

It seems to me that this would cause the CPU to constantly ramp up in speed and then slow down, I can see a game running smoothly for a half second, then lagging horribly until the processer is able to "sprint" again.

 

[sargentmajord]

I wonder what the performance impact would be for things such as gaming, where a "long distance runner" approach makes more sense than this so-called "sprinting".

It seems to me that this would cause the CPU to constantly ramp up in speed and then slow down, I can see a game running smoothly for a half second, then lagging horribly until the processer is able to "sprint" again.

Well what i think there saying is multiple cpus so if the sprinting was shown up in lights it would be a constant blinking of many lights so where one cpu left off the other will pick up allowing the the cpus a rest period granted it might be a second or less of rest buts not under constant usage