Hi dmw, Frankly I'm not sure if it was sarcasm or not. I rather felt it was a literal question. With your new knowledge you have manufactured a problem which does not exist.
Regards, On 06/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm going to assume your sarcasm was intended as good-natured fun-poking > without malice, though that was not how it read to me. I'm well aware of > the changes in memory vs. persistent store that have occurred since I got my > first computer in 1984 with 16k RAM and a tape drive. > With that said, I don't think my question was unreasonable. The Palm OS > is new to me, and the concepts of movable vs fixed chunks on the heap and a > strange data store force me to rethink the way I do things. Is it not ok to > ask of those who have walked before me what they've learned along the way? > > > On Feb 5, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Pinus Alba wrote: > > Hi dmw, > > Are you serious? > > Twenty years ago 32K of RAM was more than enough. Palm's have much more > than that. > > If you have problems with persistent memory sizes vis a vis RAM size you > must have had the same problem on a desktop PC 5 years ago. > > Regards, > > On 06/02/07, dmw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm new to Palm OS development, and I'm trying to get a handle on how to > > manage program data. In the scenario of a simplistic desktop application, > > one would store persistent data in a file, load that data in when the > > program starts, work with the data in memory, and save it periodically and > > at application shut-down. > > > > Since the Palm is a memory limited device, do you palm developers always > > keep your persistent data in the database, without ever working with copies > > of said data on the heap? Seems it would be difficult to manage, with every > > operation being an opportunity for database corruption. What are the best > > practices here? > > -- > > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
