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Google Making Progress On 16KB Page Size For Android


Google Android engineers have shared a status update on bringing support for 16KB page size handling to Android

In moving from a 4KB to 16KB page size, Google has found a 5~10% performance boost but at the cost of around ~9% additional RAM usage. In order to solve this problem, we’ve added a way to include an extra kernel you can switch to as a developer option. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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