> On Dec 9, 2015, at 15:19 , Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: >> >> One of the WWDC videos stressed that iOS apps are given no more than 600 MB >> of RAM. Our app is VERY RAM-intensive. > > Slightly off-topic, but I wonder if you could use mmap to give your app more > address space? Create a big empty file, mmap it as writeable, then use a > custom allocator to manage memory in the mapped space. > > (This doesn’t actually give you more RAM; the mapped address space will tend > to get paged out to storage so it’ll definitely be slower than real RAM, but > it’s better than crashing!)
That's an interesting thought. We're also very compute intensive, so the speed hit might obviate the advantages. Worth considering, though. -- Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
