How We Speeded Up Process Creation on Android

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Engineers describe moving from optimizing page-open latency to speeding up Android process creation by investigating the platform at source level. They rebuilt and debugged Android from source to study the issue in depth and show how a small Google bug can translate into a large performance advantage.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:21Browser slowdown causes
3. 13:40Hypotheses and validation
4. 20:45Device reproduction search
5. 26:09File access rights investigation
6. 33:35WebView and Chrome problem
7. 37:16Solution via ART and Zygote
8. 41:09Results and metrics
9. 42:44Conclusion and Q&A

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