[threeFiftyLi]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

My rom is optimized to show that it's not the SYS, it's what a chef puts in the OEM folder (stuff added).... I've tried a couple of different sys's and I don't beleive it's there that slows it down. But the registry edits and programs you add to your rom will make the difference. Every time you add a program/shell that runs in the background, it's gonna eat up cpu cycles checking for the program trigger point and doing what it's supposed to. I didn't notice until after I released my rom, but it seemed like the defining factor of a rom in this forum was the SYS. Other than that you had the same set of OEM's in each rom, same skins, and instead of tweaking the OEM directory (programs), the roms authors were consumed by where is my next newer sys coming from.


The sys is all gonna be roughly the same, unless you count build numbers. It's what a chef adds to a rom, program wise, and combo of registry edits that makes a rom slow or fast, and good or ok.
The sprint leaked rom is fairly slow. With my rom I changed some registry entries, fixed a couple other things, upgraded manila, added in some WOW (games, sounds, custom start menu, etc.) and it's zippy enough and is very functional so I can enjoy my $200 PDA phone.

I'm not here to spend 3 hours a day updating the version numbers of everything in my rom, I'm here to WOW it up a little! For those that have tried my rom, they can see that I have truly customized my rom. For the most part rom authors do great work here, but cooking a rom is more than dropping someone else's OEM into your kitchen and pressing "play".

I'm rambling, I'll shut up before I get to that "orange" and "free components" speech...

Thanks for taking the time to respond to me. I guess since its dependent on the combination of oem's and registry edits that turn a piece of work into a masterpiece, using a kitchen maybe worse than just using a prebuilt rom.

But overall, then it means that upgrading to higher versions on the different components in the rom may not be better for speed.