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

(android-developers.googleblog.com)
95 points ingve | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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londons_explore ◴[15 Jul 25 06:47 UTC] No.44568552[source]▶
If you're making the migration at all, you really ought to be going for fully variable page sizes, otherwise 5 years from now there'll be a 64K page size CPU and suddenly everyone has to recompile everything again and there is another compatibility wall...
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1. rwmj ◴[15 Jul 25 07:09 UTC] No.44568703[source]▶
Is there a such a thing? Page size gets baked into things like executable layouts, plus any place that uses the PAGE_SIZE constant (instead of sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)).
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2. londons_explore ◴[15 Jul 25 11:02 UTC] No.44569886[source]▶
Indeed it would take redesigning a bunch of things to make runtime variable page size an option.