How do you make scrolling smooth: cell reuse, prefetching, image decoding?
Essence
While scrolling, a new frame must be ready every 8–16 ms, and with it the cells sliding onto the screen. Smooth scrolling means the per-cell work is cheap and everything expensive is done ahead of time or in the background.
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