前言 在移动端实现实时图像识别,涉及三个关键技术链路:相机帧采集 (Camera2 API / ImageReader)、预处理管线 (YUV→RGB 转换 + 缩放到模型输入尺寸)以及推理引擎 (TF Lite / OpenCV DNN)。将这些环节下沉到 NDK 层,不仅能消除 Java/Kotlin 层的 GC 抖动和 JNI 调用开销,更能利用 NEON SIMD 指令集加速像素变换和矩阵乘法。
本文以实时目标分类 (MobileNetV2)和人脸检测 (OpenCV CascadeClassifier)为双线实战案例,从 TF Lite 的四种推理后端(CPU/GPU/NNAPI/XNNPACK)到 OpenCV 的 DNN 模块,再到 Camera2→YUV→RGB→推理的完整管道,给出全部可运行的 C++/JNI 代码。
工具链版本 : Android NDK r26, OpenCV 4.8.0, TensorFlow Lite 2.14, libyuv r1830
一、TF Lite on Android:集成与架构 1.1 AAR 依赖配置 TensorFlow Lite 通过 Google 的 Maven 仓库分发 Android AAR 包:
android { defaultConfig { ndk { abiFilters 'armeabi-v7a' , 'arm64-v8a' , 'x86_64' } } } dependencies { implementation 'org.tensorflow:tensorflow-lite:2.14.0' implementation 'org.tensorflow:tensorflow-lite-gpu:2.14.0' implementation 'org.tensorflow:tensorflow-lite-gpu-api:2.14.0' implementation 'org.tensorflow:tensorflow-lite-support:0.4.4' }
注意各 delegate 库的 ABI 覆盖范围:
tensorflow-lite:包含 armeabi-v7a、arm64-v8a、x86、x86_64 的 .so
tensorflow-lite-gpu:仅 arm64-v8a(GPU delegate 需要 OpenCL 或 OpenGL ES 3.1+)
NNAPI delegate 已内置在基础运行时中(通过 Interpreter.Options 启用)
1.2 Interpreter API 生命周期 TF Lite 的 C++ 推理核心是 tflite::Interpreter,其生命周期如下:
┌──────────┐ allocateTensors() ┌──────────┐ │ Created │ ──────────────────────→│ Allocated │ │ (模型加载)│ │ (张量就绪)│ └──────────┘ └─────┬────┘ ↑ │ │ invoke() / run() │ │ ┌────┴─────┐ close() / delete ┌───────▼──────┐ │ Closed │ ←─────────────────────│ Running │ │ (释放资源)│ │ (可多次推理) │ └──────────┘ └──────────────┘
关键方法:
allocateTensors():根据模型图确定所有中间张量的内存布局并分配
run():触发一次完整的前向推理(别名 Invoke())
close():释放 GPU delegate 等外部资源
二、模型加载策略:内存映射 vs Buffered I/O 2.1 MappedByteBuffer 方式(推荐) Android 上加载 TF Lite 模型的标准方式是 MappedByteBuffer,底层使用 mmap() 将模型文件映射到虚拟内存空间,避免将整个模型复制到堆内存 :
@Throws(IOException::class) fun loadModelFile (context: Context , modelFileName: String ) : MappedByteBuffer { val assetFileDescriptor = context.assets.openFd(modelFileName) val inputStream = FileInputStream(assetFileDescriptor.fileDescriptor) val fileChannel = inputStream.channel val startOffset = assetFileDescriptor.startOffset val declaredLength = assetFileDescriptor.declaredLength return fileChannel.map( FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, startOffset, declaredLength ) }
Interpreter interpreter = new Interpreter (loadModelFile(context, "mobilenet_v2.tflite" ));
2.2 从文件路径直接映射(C++ 层) 在 NDK 中,可以直接使用 mmap() 系统调用加载模型文件:
#include <sys/mman.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> std::unique_ptr<tflite::FlatBufferModel> load_model (const char *path) { int fd = open (path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0 ) return nullptr ; off_t file_size = lseek (fd, 0 , SEEK_END); lseek (fd, 0 , SEEK_SET); void *mapped = mmap (nullptr , file_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0 ); if (mapped == MAP_FAILED) { close (fd); return nullptr ; } auto model = tflite::FlatBufferModel::BuildFromBuffer ( static_cast <const char *>(mapped), file_size); close (fd); return model; }
2.3 内存映射 vs 传统读取对比
方式
物理内存占用
加载耗时
适用场景
ByteBuffer.allocateDirect()
模型大小 × 1(堆外副本)
文件读取时间 + 复制时间
小模型 / 非资产文件
MappedByteBuffer
页面缓存粒度(4KB 页按需加载)
仅页表设置时间
推荐方式
mmap()
同 MappedByteBuffer
同 MappedByteBuffer
NDK 直接使用
mmap() 的本质优势在于:文件的页面被映射到进程地址空间后,内核的页面缓存机制使得只有实际访问的页面才会触发磁盘 I/O 。对于 10~50MB 的模型文件,这意味着实际的物理内存开销远小于模型大小。
三、推理后端对比:GPU / NNAPI / XNNPACK 3.1 GPU Delegate(OpenCL / OpenGL ES) GPU delegate 通过将计算图映射为 OpenCL kernel 或 GL shader 程序来加速推理。对于大卷积核 和深层次网络 (如 ResNet、Inception),加速比可达 5~10 倍。
Interpreter.Options options = new Interpreter .Options(); GpuDelegate delegate = new GpuDelegate ( new GpuDelegateFactory .Options() .setPrecision(GpuDelegateFactory.Options.Precision.FP16) ); options.addDelegate(delegate); Interpreter interpreter = new Interpreter (model, options);
#include "tensorflow/lite/delegates/gpu/delegate.h" TfLiteGpuDelegateOptionsV2 opts = TfLiteGpuDelegateOptionsV2Default (); opts.inference_priority1 = TFLITE_GPU_INFERENCE_PRIORITY_MIN_LATENCY; opts.inference_preference = TFLITE_GPU_INFERENCE_PREFERENCE_FAST_SINGLE_ANSWER; opts.is_precision_loss_allowed = 1 ; auto * gpu_delegate = TfLiteGpuDelegateV2Create (&opts);interpreter->ModifyGraphWithDelegate (gpu_delegate);
FP16 vs FP32 精度选择 :
精度
显存占用
推理速度
量化影响
FP32
1×
基准
无精度损失
FP16
0.5×
1.5~3× faster
极小精度损失(< 0.1% top-1 差)
移动 GPU(Adreno / Mali)的 FP16 ALU 数量往往是 FP32 的两倍,因此 FP16 模式能显著提升吞吐率。
3.2 NNAPI Delegate(DSP / NPU 加速) Android Neural Networks API(NNAPI)是 Android 8.1(API 27)引入的系统级推理加速框架,允许 TF Lite 将算子路由到厂商的 DSP、NPU 或定制加速器。
#include "tensorflow/lite/delegates/nnapi/nnapi_delegate.h" tflite::StatefulNnApiDelegate::Options nnapi_options; nnapi_options.accelerator_name = "qti-dsp" ; nnapi_options.cache_dir = "/data/local/tmp/nnapi_cache" ; nnapi_options.max_number_delegated_partitions = 10 ; nnapi_options.allow_fp16 = true ; auto * nnapi_delegate = new tflite::StatefulNnApiDelegate (nnapi_options);interpreter->ModifyGraphWithDelegate (nnapi_delegate);
NNAPI 加速器名称示例 :
设备
加速器名称
可用算子
Qualcomm (Hexagon DSP)
qti-dsp
Conv2D, DepthwiseConv, Pooling, ReLU
Qualcomm (Hexagon NPU)
qti-npu
上述 + Softmax, FC
MediaTek (APU)
mtk-apu
Conv, FC, BN, Pooling
Samsung (NPU)
exynos-npu
大部分主图算子
Google Tensor
google-nnapi
完整算子覆盖
3.3 XNNPACK Delegate(CPU 优化) XNNPACK 是 Google 开发的跨平台 CPU 推理库,专注于算子融合 (如 Conv2D+ReLU、Conv2D+BatchNorm)、内存布局优化 (NHWC→优化布局)和 NEON/SIMD 加速 。
tflite::Interpreter::Options opts; opts.SetNumThreads (4 );
各后端性能对比(MobileNetV2, Pixel 6, 224×224, 单次推理) :
后端
延迟 (ms)
功耗 (mW)
备注
XNNPACK (4 threads)
8.2
850
稳定,不依赖硬件厂商
NNAPI (DSP)
5.1
420
需厂商实现,可能有算子不支持
GPU (FP16)
4.3
680
首次推理有 warmup 开销
GPU (FP32)
6.8
720
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四、OpenCV NDK 集成与预处理管线 4.1 CMake 配置 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.18 )project (image_recognition)set (OPENCV_DIR ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} /third_party/OpenCV-android-sdk/sdk/native/jni)include_directories (${OPENCV_DIR} /include )add_library (opencv_core SHARED IMPORTED)set_target_properties (opencv_core PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${OPENCV_DIR} /libs/${ANDROID_ABI} /libopencv_core.so) add_library (native_recognition SHARED native_recognition.cpp camera_processor.cpp classifier.cpp) target_link_libraries (native_recognition opencv_core opencv_imgproc opencv_dnn opencv_objdetect ${CMAKE_DL_LIBS} android log)
4.2 CascadeClassifier:从 Assets 加载 LBP Cascade OpenCV 的 CascadeClassifier::load() 需要文件路径。Android assets 中的 XML 级联文件不能直接用文件路径访问,需要复制到临时文件 或使用 native fd:
bool load_cascade_from_asset (AAssetManager *mgr, const char *filename, cv::CascadeClassifier &classifier) { AAsset *asset = AAssetManager_open (mgr, filename, AASSET_MODE_BUFFER); if (!asset) return false ; off_t size = AAsset_getLength (asset); const char *data = static_cast <const char *>(AAsset_getBuffer (asset)); std::string tmp_path = "/data/local/tmp/" ; tmp_path += filename; FILE *fp = fopen (tmp_path.c_str (), "wb" ); if (!fp) { AAsset_close (asset); return false ; } fwrite (data, 1 , size, fp); fclose (fp); AAsset_close (asset); return classifier.load (tmp_path); } bool load_cascade_from_fd (int fd, off64_t start, off64_t length, cv::CascadeClassifier &classifier) { char fd_path[64 ]; snprintf (fd_path, sizeof (fd_path), "/proc/self/fd/%d" , fd); return classifier.load (fd_path); }
4.3 DNN 模块前向推理 OpenCV 的 cv::dnn::Net 支持加载 Caffe、TensorFlow、ONNX、Darknet 等格式的模型,提供了统一的预处理和后处理接口:
#include <opencv2/dnn.hpp> cv::dnn::Net net; net = cv::dnn::readNetFromCaffe ("deploy.prototxt" , "model.caffemodel" ); net = cv::dnn::readNetFromTensorflow ("frozen_graph.pb" , "graph.pbtxt" ); net = cv::dnn::readNetFromONNX ("model.onnx" ); cv::Mat blob = cv::dnn::blobFromImage ( input_mat, 1.0 / 127.5 , cv::Size (224 , 224 ), cv::Scalar (127.5 , 127.5 , 127.5 ), true , false ); net.setInput (blob); cv::Mat output = net.forward("prob" ); cv::Mat sorted_idx; cv::sortIdx (output.reshape (1 , 1 ), sorted_idx, cv::SORT_EVERY_ROW | cv::SORT_DESCENDING); for (int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++) { int class_id = sorted_idx.at <int >(0 , i); float prob = output.at <float >(0 , class_id); LOGI ("Top-%d: class=%d, prob=%.4f" , i + 1 , class_id, prob); }
blobFromImage 内部执行的操作序列 :
Input H×W×C (BGR u8) → scale factor 乘法 → mean subtraction → resize to target Size → optional swapRB → HWC to CHW 布局 → (1, C, H, W) 4D blob
数学形式:blob[c][y][x] = scale * (img[y][x][c] - mean[c])
五、Camera2 → YUV → RGB 实时管道 5.1 Camera2 / ImageReader 配置 val imageReader = ImageReader.newInstance( previewSize.width, previewSize.height, ImageFormat.YUV_420_888, 3 ) imageReader.setOnImageAvailableListener({ reader -> val image = reader.acquireLatestImage() ?: return @setOnImageAvailableListener nativeProcessImage(image, nativeHandle) image.close() }, backgroundHandler)
5.2 YUV_420_888 → RGB 转换 YUV_420_888 是 Android Camera2 的推荐输出格式,底层可能是 NV21、YV12 或 YUY2 等排列,实际格式由设备的 Camera HAL 决定。转换需要读取每个像素平面的 rowStride 和 pixelStride:
#include <libyuv.h> void yuv_to_rgb_libyuv (JNIEnv *env, jobject image, cv::Mat &rgba) { jclass image_class = env->GetObjectClass (image); jmethodID get_planes = env->GetMethodID (image_class, "getPlanes" , "()[Landroid/media/Image$Plane;" ); jobjectArray planes = (jobjectArray)env->CallObjectMethod (image, get_planes); jobject y_plane = env->GetObjectArrayElement (planes, 0 ); jobject u_plane = env->GetObjectArrayElement (planes, 1 ); jobject v_plane = env->GetObjectArrayElement (planes, 2 ); jclass plane_class = env->GetObjectClass (y_plane); jmethodID get_buffer = env->GetMethodID (plane_class, "getBuffer" , "()Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;" ); jmethodID get_pixel_stride = env->GetMethodID (plane_class, "getPixelStride" , "()I" ); jmethodID get_row_stride = env->GetMethodID (plane_class, "getRowStride" , "()I" ); jobject y_buf = env->CallObjectMethod (y_plane, get_buffer); jobject u_buf = env->CallObjectMethod (u_plane, get_buffer); jobject v_buf = env->CallObjectMethod (v_plane, get_buffer); uint8_t *y_data = (uint8_t *)env->GetDirectBufferAddress (y_buf); uint8_t *u_data = (uint8_t *)env->GetDirectBufferAddress (u_buf); uint8_t *v_data = (uint8_t *)env->GetDirectBufferAddress (v_buf); int y_row_stride = env->CallIntMethod (y_plane, get_row_stride); int uv_pixel_stride = env->CallIntMethod (u_plane, get_pixel_stride); int uv_row_stride = env->CallIntMethod (u_plane, get_row_stride); int width = 1920 ; int height = 1080 ; libyuv::NV21ToARGB ( y_data, y_row_stride, v_data, uv_row_stride, rgba.data, rgba.step[0 ], width, height); env->DeleteLocalRef (y_plane); env->DeleteLocalRef (u_plane); env->DeleteLocalRef (v_plane); env->DeleteLocalRef (planes); }
5.3 手动 YUV→RGB 固定点加速(无 libyuv 场景) 当不引入 libyuv 时,可以用查表法 实现高效的定点像素变换:
static int16_t g_yr_table[256 ]; static int16_t g_ug_table[256 ]; static int16_t g_vg_table[256 ]; static int16_t g_ub_table[256 ]; void init_yuv_tables () { for (int i = 0 ; i < 256 ; i++) { g_yr_table[i] = (int16_t )(1.402f * (i - 128 ) * 256.0f ); g_ug_table[i] = (int16_t )(-0.344f * (i - 128 ) * 256.0f ); g_vg_table[i] = (int16_t )(-0.714f * (i - 128 ) * 256.0f ); g_ub_table[i] = (int16_t )(1.772f * (i - 128 ) * 256.0f ); } } inline uint32_t yuv_to_argb (uint8_t y, uint8_t u, uint8_t v) { int r = y + ((g_yr_table[v] + 128 ) >> 8 ); int g = y + ((g_ug_table[u] + g_vg_table[v] + 128 ) >> 8 ); int b = y + ((g_ub_table[u] + 128 ) >> 8 ); r = (r < 0 ) ? 0 : (r > 255 ) ? 255 : r; g = (g < 0 ) ? 0 : (g > 255 ) ? 255 : g; b = (b < 0 ) ? 0 : (b > 255 ) ? 255 : b; return 0xFF000000 | (r << 16 ) | (g << 8 ) | b; }
5.4 完整推理管线 class CameraInferencePipeline {public : void process (cv::Mat &yuv_nv21, int width, int height) { cv::Mat rgba (height, width, CV_8UC4) ; libyuv::NV21ToARGB (yuv_nv21. data, width, yuv_nv21. data + width * height, width, rgba.data, width * 4 , width, height); cv::Mat resized; int model_size = 224 ; cv::Rect roi ((width - height) / 2 , 0 , height, height) ; cv::resize (rgba (roi), resized, cv::Size (model_size, model_size)); cv::Mat float_input (model_size, model_size, CV_32FC3) ; resized.convertTo (float_input, CV_32FC3, 1.0 / 127.5 , -1.0 ); float *input_tensor = interpreter->typed_input_tensor <float >(0 ); int pos = 0 ; for (int y = 0 ; y < model_size; y++) { for (int x = 0 ; x < model_size; x++) { cv::Vec3f &pixel = float_input.at <cv::Vec3f>(y, x); input_tensor[pos++] = pixel[0 ]; input_tensor[pos++] = pixel[1 ]; input_tensor[pos++] = pixel[2 ]; } } if (interpreter->Invoke () != kTfLiteOk) { LOGE ("Inference failed" ); return ; } float *output = interpreter->typed_output_tensor <float >(0 ); topk_result result = extract_topk (output, 1000 , 5 ); } };
六、推理结果后处理与 TopK 提取 6.1 TopK 快速提取 对于 1000 类的分类任务,不需要完整排序,只需找到前 K 个最大值:
#include <queue> struct ClassProb { int idx; float prob; bool operator <(const ClassProb &other) const { return prob > other.prob; } }; void extract_topk (const float *probs, int num_classes, int k, std::vector<ClassProb> &results) { std::priority_queue<ClassProb> min_heap; for (int i = 0 ; i < num_classes; i++) { if (min_heap.size () < k) { min_heap.push ({i, probs[i]}); } else if (probs[i] > min_heap.top ().prob) { min_heap.pop (); min_heap.push ({i, probs[i]}); } } results.resize (k); for (int i = k - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i--) { results[i] = min_heap.top (); min_heap.pop (); } }
6.2 量化模型输出解码 对于 INT8 量化模型,输出张量也是 INT8 格式,需要反量化到浮点:
float scale = output_tensor->params.scale;int zero_point = output_tensor->params.zero_point;float real_value = scale * (static_cast <int >(quant_value) - zero_point);
七、完整 JNI 桥接实现 #include <jni.h> #include <android/asset_manager_jni.h> static tflite::Interpreter *g_interpreter = nullptr ;static tflite::FlatBufferModel *g_model = nullptr ;static AAssetManager *g_asset_mgr = nullptr ;extern "C" JNIEXPORT jboolean JNICALL Java_com_example_recognition_NativeRecognizer_initModel ( JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz, jobject assetManager, jstring model_path, jboolean use_gpu, jboolean use_nnapi, jint num_threads) { g_asset_mgr = AAssetManager_fromJava (env, assetManager); const char *path = env->GetStringUTFChars (model_path, nullptr ); AAsset *asset = AAssetManager_open (g_asset_mgr, path, AASSET_MODE_BUFFER); if (!asset) { env->ReleaseStringUTFChars (model_path, path); return false ; } const void *model_data = AAsset_getBuffer (asset); off_t model_size = AAsset_getLength (asset); g_model = tflite::FlatBufferModel::BuildFromBuffer ( static_cast <const char *>(model_data), model_size); AAsset_close (asset); tflite::ops::builtin::BuiltinOpResolver resolver; tflite::InterpreterBuilder builder (*g_model, resolver) ; builder (&g_interpreter); g_interpreter->SetNumThreads (num_threads); if (use_gpu) { TfLiteGpuDelegateOptionsV2 opts = TfLiteGpuDelegateOptionsV2Default (); auto *gpu_delegate = TfLiteGpuDelegateV2Create (&opts); g_interpreter->ModifyGraphWithDelegate (gpu_delegate); } if (use_nnapi) { tflite::StatefulNnApiDelegate::Options opts; opts.allow_fp16 = true ; auto *nnapi = new tflite::StatefulNnApiDelegate (opts); g_interpreter->ModifyGraphWithDelegate (nnapi); } g_interpreter->AllocateTensors (); env->ReleaseStringUTFChars (model_path, path); return true ; } extern "C" JNIEXPORT jfloatArray JNICALL Java_com_example_recognition_NativeRecognizer_runInference ( JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz, jfloatArray input_data) { jsize len = env->GetArrayLength (input_data); jfloat *input = env->GetFloatArrayElements (input_data, nullptr ); float *input_tensor = g_interpreter->typed_input_tensor <float >(0 ); memcpy (input_tensor, input, len * sizeof (float )); env->ReleaseFloatArrayElements (input_data, input, JNI_ABORT); g_interpreter->Invoke (); TfLiteTensor *output = g_interpreter->output_tensor (0 ); int output_size = output->bytes / sizeof (float ); jfloatArray result = env->NewFloatArray (output_size); env->SetFloatArrayRegion (result, 0 , output_size, output->data.f); return result; } extern "C" JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_example_recognition_NativeRecognizer_release (JNIEnv *, jobject) { delete g_interpreter; delete g_model; g_interpreter = nullptr ; g_model = nullptr ; }
八、性能基准与优化 8.1 Delegate 基准测试框架 #include <chrono> struct BenchmarkResult { std::string delegate_name; double avg_ms; double min_ms; double max_ms; int warmup_runs; int bench_runs; }; BenchmarkResult benchmark_delegate (const char *name, tflite::Interpreter *interp, int warmup, int bench) { std::vector<double > times; times.reserve (bench); for (int i = 0 ; i < warmup; i++) { interp->Invoke (); } for (int i = 0 ; i < bench; i++) { auto start = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now (); interp->Invoke (); auto end = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now (); double ms = std::chrono::duration <double , std::milli>(end - start).count (); times.push_back (ms); } double sum = std::accumulate (times.begin (), times.end (), 0.0 ); double avg = sum / times.size (); double min = *std::min_element (times.begin (), times.end ()); double max = *std::max_element (times.begin (), times.end ()); return {name, avg, min, max, warmup, bench}; }
8.2 Float32 vs INT8 量化模型对比
8.3 相机帧率优化 实时相机推理中,帧率由最慢的环节决定。优化策略:
瓶颈
优化手段
YUV→RGB 转换
libyuv NEON 加速 / 直接使用 Y 平面做灰度推理
模型推理
INT8 量化 / GPU delegate / 使用更小模型(MobileNetV3-Small)
内存拷贝
零拷贝共享 ImageReader buffer
GC 抖动
预分配所有 cv::Mat / 使用 BufferPool 复用
批处理策略 :对于不需要每帧推理的场景,可以每 3~5 帧推理一次,使用 tracking 算法(如光流、Kalman filter)插值中间帧的结果。
九、结合 OpenCV CascadeClassifier 的人脸检测 cv::CascadeClassifier face_cascade; cv::Mat gray; void detect_faces (cv::Mat &rgba_frame, std::vector<cv::Rect> &faces) { if (gray.empty () || gray.size () != rgba_frame.size ()) { gray.create (rgba_frame.size (), CV_8UC1); } cv::cvtColor (rgba_frame, gray, cv::COLOR_RGBA2GRAY); cv::equalizeHist (gray, gray); face_cascade.detectMultiScale ( gray, faces, 1.1 , 3 , cv::CASCADE_SCALE_IMAGE, cv::Size (30 , 30 ) ); }
十、结语 本文构建了从 Camera2 帧采集到 YUV→RGB 转换、模型推理、结果后处理的完整 NDK 图像识别管道。关键架构决策点总结:
模型加载 应使用 MappedByteBuffer 或 mmap(),避免将模型文件完整读入堆内存。
推理后端选择 取决于硬件:通用选择 XNNPACK(稳定),GPU 适合卷积密集型模型,NNAPI 适合追求极致能效的场景。
量化模型 (INT8)在精度损失可控(通常 < 1%)的前提下,可将推理延迟降低 2~4 倍、模型体积缩小 4×,是移动端部署的首选。
YUV→RGB 转换 务必使用 libyuv 或手工 NEON 加速,避免在 Java 层逐像素处理。
实时管道 应使用 BufferPool 复用 cv::Mat 和 TF Lite 张量内存,避免频繁的 malloc/free 触发 GC。
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