Android Performance Improvement: Google Increases Speed After Upgraded Memory Management

Google recently announced an upgrade to the Android operating system (photo: x @Android).

JAKARTA - Google recently announced an upgrade to the Android operating system that allows 16KB of memory page size support. With this upgrade, Android can now support hardware using 4KB or 16KB-sized memory pages, providing significant performance boosts and efficiency.

In a recent post on the Android Developer blog, Google explains that Android will become more flexible in supporting different memory pages. Users of Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro devices running Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 will be able to choose between 4KB or 16KB pages.

This support is expected to improve the quality of video, game performance, and application smoothness. This is possible because memory management units (MMU) in CPUs can now translate memory addresses more efficiently.

Armed with a larger page size, the system needs fewer "distortion" at the operating system level, so more resources can be allocated to ensure the video looks better, the game runs more smoothly, and the app operates more smoothly.

Google reports that it sees an overall performance increase of 5-10% using a larger page size. However, there are consequences where the use of physical memory increases by 9%. However, users are expected to benefit from this upgrade as more hardware supports larger memory page sizes