Power Use Estimation Summary

Try to estimate the power use of your application using the green advisor tool provided in the labs. Describe the output of the tool 1 reasonable paragraph provided on the wiki. The tool database and the the reports it generate should be committed to your git repo.

We decided to run the Green Advisor tool to compare our application at at two major points: before network persistance, and after network persistance.

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The output showed a significant difference in the number of calls after persistance/data storage was added. The major changes were for syscall clock_gettime (12.95%), getpid (13.90%) gettimeofday (60.00%), and writev (13.39%). However there were two striking changes in the number of calls beyond this. For syscall getuid32, we saw a 233.33% increase. However for syscall restart_syscall we saw a decrease in number of calls by 60%. Overall these results are expected as adding data storage tends to be a fairly expensive operation for a mobile application.

You can view the report here