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Wow! - A 4x increase in minimum memory over just 5 years. And it appears that they are desperately fighting memory leaks.

Maybe the Android Team should consider a "Rewrite to Rust" project, introduce a better designed API for native apps and market an "Android Yoga".

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Is that a lot? Smartphones were in their infancy until very recently. I think 2GB is entirely reasonable, especially because the Android ecosystem doesn't require the latest OS version to be a commercially viable and usable phone.

Windows 98 required 16MB of RAM, Windows XP required 4x more (64MB) and it was released just 3 years later.

I can see some Android phones with 2GB of RAM that cost under $100.

You think moving to rust will reduce the memory footprint?? Interesting viewpoint...

It is well accepted that GC-based runtimes greatly increase memory footprint. A tracing GC might need upto several times the memory to match manual memory management. Nothing interesting about the "viewpoint".

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...

I think you missed the sarcasm in my post. I was not at all serious and completely subscribe to everything you just mentioned

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