Memory Management on Mobile Devices

Explore memory management on mobile devices in this 20-minute video presentation from the ISMM 2024 conference. Delve into the challenges and importance of memory management for mobile device performance, affecting billions of users worldwide. Examine the Android Runtime (ART) as a case study, focusing on its open-source nature, garbage collection, and diverse market reach. Discover key contributions including identification of evaluation pitfalls, a framework for performance evaluation, a curated benchmark suite of real-world applications, and an analysis of garbage collection overheads. Learn about the varying lower bounds of garbage collection overheads across different benchmarks, ranging from 2% to 51%. Gain insights into the complexities of mobile performance criteria and the challenges of determinism in mobile environments. Understand the potential impact of this research in demystifying memory management challenges and fostering innovation in this critical domain.