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Originally Posted by gbm85
You guys are misunderstanding how the page file works on Windows. WINDOWS DOES NOT USE THE PAGE FILE / READYBOOST AS MORE RAM!! It takes unused memory (i.e. from programs that are not currently being used) and writes it out to disk. While this would certainly be possible on a PDA, it would be pointless. It would take longer to write out unused memory to a flash card than it would to just close the program (which Windows Mobile currently does) and then open it back up when you need it again.
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That being said, couldn't you just move some of the usual phone RAM nibbling but not so important processes to the card? and we aren' talking writing MB and MBSs of files, so I hardly doubt the "take forever to write" thing would have much of an effect.
Matt Ayers, when asked if Readyboost technology (such as the one we are discussing) is just putting the paging file onto a flash disk. He answered, "Not really. the file is still backed on disk. This is a cache - if the data is not found in the ReadyBoost cache, we fall back to the HDD."
The point of what many in arguments for the feasibility of establishing this "readyboost mobile" technology, is that the RAM on the phone does in fact look into the Harddrive anyway, why would this card not be able to outperform the HDD?
The earlier quoted Ayers even said, "This isn't a separate page file store, but rather a cache to speed up access to frequently used data."
So yes, you are correct... to some degree.
I'm seriously not talking about the feasibility of making the card ACTUAL RAM here, I am just talking a pseudonized RAM of sorts that gives better performance. I would love to see my SD card slot increase my text message loading speeds, or even my contacts list access. nothing major, just smaller things to allow the real RAM to focus on the bigger issues.
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