This thread kills me...
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Originally Posted by deviant.ones
And from an electronics point of view, nomatter where the ram is allocated the chip will always draw the same amount of power.
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exactly, assuming nothing goes into a low power mode (which it won't on these devices), none have "startup" costs, and none have "stopping" costs.
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In a pc if you watch the voltage of your ram they are identical between a 512mg chip and a 4gb chip.
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well, that's because voltage is clamped. Current will vary (and, of course, die density will play a big role in that). But again, we aren't talking about adding/subtracting chips when pagepool is changed.
and finally....the pagepool is nothing like the pagefile on a regular operating system. A pagefile on a regular os is used to create virtual memory, by mapping through a slower and cheaper medium. By contrast, the pagepool is little more than a cache of static code portions. The nice thing is, even with a giant pagepool, you'll still have more ram available on a touch pro than many WM devices possess. I expect we'll see a lot of new software that needs that extra memory, however, and your giant pagepool will have to go.