Monday, April 3, 2006
Discussing Windows Mobile and Pagefiles
Posted by Darius Wey in "ARTICLE" @ 04:30 AM
"What people would really like to do is use their storage as RAM. "I may only have 32M of RAM, but I've got a 1 Gig SD card that's mostly empty. It would be cool if I could use that SD card to run more programs." At first blush, this can't work at all. The SD card is made of NAND flash and flash is just too slow to be used as RAM. But hard drives are also too slow to be used as RAM. Yet, the desktop system manages to extend its RAM with clever use of the hard drive. Why can't Windows Mobile do the same thing with the SD card?"
We all have pagefiles on our PC, so why not our Pocket PC? Over at the Windows Mobile Team Blog, resident memory guru, Mike Calligaro, explores this issue. Interesting read - check it out!
We all have pagefiles on our PC, so why not our Pocket PC? Over at the Windows Mobile Team Blog, resident memory guru, Mike Calligaro, explores this issue. Interesting read - check it out!
