Sorry Jim, I don't know the answer... Maybe Dianne or Romain will come across this post and they can shed some light on the subject.
And I just can't resist... I HAVE to comment on this... I find it extremely amusing that the random quote in the signature of your last email happened to be this: No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it > out, you didn't want to know anyway... --Larry Wall > When you just got finished asking this: Can someone please either explain it, or point me to a page that does? > That is just way too awesome... :-) Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:25:51AM -0600, Justin Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > While working on trying to squeeze in as much space for processing > > > bitmaps in my app, I noticed this method, and from what I've read, > > > believe it might help. What I have not found, however, is a real (and > > > clear) description of what it does, and how to best use it. > > > > > > The dev guide page suggests using it to create about 15 kB of temp > > > space. Examples I've seen from this list in the past suggest the > > > same, even for as much as 9 MB bitmaps. 15 kB temp space for 9 MB > > > bitmaps makes no sense to me, so I'm clearly missing something. > > > I don't know for sure, but I would assume that is because it doesn't > decode > > the entire 9 MB image at once... > > Ok, I could assume that as well (and I more or less did). But I prefer > actual documentation over assumptions. And that was only one part of my > question. Every post I read where this was used involved using it to > avoid out of memory errors from creating huge bitmaps. But the huge > bitmap is still being created, right? So ultimately, how does this help > prevent that? Does it process and then release (free, etc.) the memory > used by the byte[] array one chunk at a time? Is that one reason why the > temp space size is set so low? How much (in terms of the relative size > of the bitmaps and the data[] array) extra memory does this make > available---memory that I can use in processing the bitmap(s)? > > Or should I just *assume* that it'll do whatever I want it to do, > whenever I want it to do it? > > So once again, I ask: > > > > Can someone please either explain it, or point me to a page that > > > does? > > Thanks, > --jim > > -- > THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > > spooky1...@gmail.com ICBM/Hurr.: 30.44406N 86.59909W > > No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it > out, you didn't want to know anyway... --Larry Wall > > Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
