Re: Kinetic - Loading apps into fast RAM

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:59:04 +0000, Mark wrote:

In message <a67755764f.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 24 Feb 2008 Jess <phantasm_39@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is it possible to force applications to run only in the RAM in the
processor board?

No, not without modifying RISC OS's memory allocation strategy.

[snip]

Does not the Kinetic get its higher speed by using its on-board RAM
/first/ ?

It gets its higher speed because a lot of allocations get put there
because you only have a small amount of memory on the motherboard.
There's still a chance Firefox will get allocated memory off the CPU
card, and it still won't be able to do half-word loads or stores to other
parts of the system, such as video memory, or in-memory drag-and-drop
transfers: it's too much effort to tell the compiler to allow half-word
accesses in some parts of the program and not in others.

And in any case, even a 300MHz StrongARM is way too feeble to run
Firefox, even if you had infinitely fast RAM.

B.
.

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