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		izacus on May 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Fragmented Is Android? I think Google wants to allow OEMs to build devices that only support arm64-v8a arch - this will make the OS image significantly smaller because now they need to ship several components in duplicate - 32 and 64-bit versions. This is beneficial to total size of OS on the flash. Apple did this years ago.

kalleboo on May 27, 2019 [–]

RAM usage as well as you no longer need to keep both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of OS libraries in memory at the same time.

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