On 11 Feb 2014, at 15:46, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > I'm well aware that on most modern operating systems "available RAM" is not a > very informative number because virtual memory makes RAM and address space > very different things. But on iOS, as I understand it, there is no swap file > and address space is always allocated out of physical RAM.
Watch out - that's the truth, but not the whole truth: memory is still freed up by discarding or writing memory-mapped stuff out to disk, and freeing purgeable regions (although how this plays with the memory warning system I don't exactly know, and I don't believe it's documented). Jamie. _______________________________________________ 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
