
Google is updating the Android LLVM toolchain to produce code that runs faster and uses less power, a behind-the-scenes change designed to make phones feel snappier and extend battery life. Wear OS 7's stated up-to-10% battery improvement for watches shows similar optimization goals across Google's platforms, indicating a wider push to improve efficiency on both phones and wearables. These low-level improvements are directly relevant to plans for a merged Android+ChromeOS platform and premium hardware, and experimental Android builds may be used to test or demonstrate the gains on Pixel devices.
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