How does setting baselineAligned to false improve performance in LinearLayout?

Question

I was just building some UI in xml, and Lint gave me a warning and said to set android:baselineAligned to false to improve performance in ListView.

The docs for the

Answer 1

// Baseline alignment requires to measure widgets to obtain the
                // baseline offset (in particular for TextViews). The following
                // defeats the optimization mentioned above. Allow the child to
                // use as much space as it wants because we can shrink things
                // later (and re-measure).
                if (baselineAligned) {
                    final int freeSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
                    child.measure(freeSpec, freeSpec);
                }

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/widget/LinearLayout.java#L1093