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Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games

(android-developers.googleblog.com)
95 points ingve | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.297s | source
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nephanth ◴[15 Jul 25 06:08 UTC] No.44568300[source]▶
From my noobish standpoint, it feels like most code shounldn't care what the page size is? Why does it need te be recompiled?

What typically tends to break when changing it?

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1. magnat ◴[15 Jul 25 06:48 UTC] No.44568560[source]▶
Mostly for I/O, e.g. mmap requires file offset to be multiple of the page size.