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Re: [gnugo-devel] Memory usage
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Dave Denholm |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] Memory usage |
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Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:06:05 +0100 |
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"Alexander Pruss" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 3/30/06, Alexander Rødseth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Most new Palms have support for SD-cards. Perhaps it's possible to
>> employ some sort of virtual memory, and use the SD-card for storage?
>> It would be slow, but should be possible.
>
> Very slow, but doable. One would have to know more about the
> internals of Gnu Go... But it could be done. In fact, most new Palms
> have a goodly amount of built-in flash. It's not memory mapped, alas,
> so it's slow, but it's usable.
>
Doesn't sound like a good idea to swap to flash : flash allows a
limited number of erase cycles, so it's okay for files which change a
few times, but constant rewriting would probably wear it out very
quickly.
dd
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Dave Denholm <address@hidden> http://www.esmertec.com
Re: [gnugo-devel] Memory usage, Aloril, 2006/03/30