"Alexander Pruss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 3/30/06, Alexander Rødseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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              <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>       http://www.esmertec.com


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