Memory Management on Mobile Devices
Kunal Sareen, Stephen Michael Blackburn, Sara S. Hamouda, Lokesh Gidra · 2024
The performance of mobile devices directly affects billions of people worldwide. Yet, despite memory management being key to their responsiveness, energy efficiency, and cost, mobile devices are understudied in the literature. A paucity of suitable methodologies and benchmarks is likely both a cause and a consequence of this gap. It also reflects the challenges of evaluating mobile devices due to: i) their inherently multi-tenanted nature, ii) the scarcity of widely-used open source workloads suitable as benchmarks, iii) the challenge of determinism and reproducibility given mobile devices' extensive use of GPS and network services, iv) the complexity of mobile performance criteria.