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Old 02-25-2008, 12:25 AM
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Re: Ways to free Memory/speed up the Mogul?

I just wanted to point out that installing programs to external storage does not help free up RAM. RAM and ROM on a WiMo device (wm5 and later) operate as RAM and HDD operate on a computer. It doesn't matter where the programs are installed. RAM is only occupied by currently running programs. Any executable code no matter where it is stored must be copied into RAM to be executed. Running programs also allocate RAM for runtime use. Once a program is done executing it should free the memory it is using, then the copy of it in RAM is destroyed. A memory leak is when a program does not free all the memory it had in use before it exits (due to programming mistakes). Memory leaking is the main reason why as the day goes on our free memory goes from sad to tearful.
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