I'm porting a app to palmos. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Memory allocation
> > Ok, i was talking about allocating memory using > > MemChunkNew with storage heap ID. This works > > on emulator but not on real device. > > I need to have a pointer access. > > tell me a good reason why you need to allocate so much memory? > i have been involved in a number of 'high memory' demanding applications > and, i have always found a solution to the problems by doing a little > bit of re-design and handling of memory to suits the specific needs of > an embedded device such as palmos. > > to give you an example, our lemmings demo requires around 450kb of > dynamic ram. now, we got it running on palmos 3.1 - which, most will > know only has around 64k of dynamic ram available. > > designing around memory limited environments is a case-by-case example. > we were able to effectively take our 450kb of ram requirements and > segment exactly what we needed to be fully available without memory > access restrictions down to the limits of the device. it wasn't easy, > but, we pulled it off :) > > design :) > > --- > Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 > Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/