My application needs to allocate large buffers to process topographic data 
manually entered on the device. The maximum amount
of data it can process depends on the amount of available heap. At some point, 
a too small heap could prevent processing the
acquired data. 4.4 Mb is required to process the maximum amount of data 
supported by the application. With less heap, this
maximum amount of data can still be acquired and stored, but not processed. 
Knowing the available heap of different devices, I
could inform users how much data specific device can process (it must be done 
in a single shot).


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Luc Le Blanc


Tam Hanna a écrit :

> Hi,
> The API must constrain you to a lowest possible OS version. If you use OS5
> Handhelds only, you can assume way more memory than using OS3 handhelds.
> Why don’t you try this approach:
> Design app-detect minimum OS version required->then look for lowest device
> with this OS->use its memory constraints(but keep in mind-some Libs and
> Tasks munch 400KB of space automatically).
> When I don’t know the exact OS version you want to limit the app to, I cant
> really help you. Sorry, but that is how it looks...
> Hope this helps
> Tam
> Luc Le Blanc wrote
>
> It does indeed depend on the handheld, hence my question. A IIIxe has 256
> Mb,
> a T3 12Mb. What's in between?
>
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> Luc Le Blanc
>
> Tam Hanna wrote :
>
> > Hi,
> > I would just assume that it is at least 30KB for all Handhelds with OS3 or
> > higher. It pretty much depends of which handheld your app should run on
> > minimally because of the API calls-take his system specs and treat this as
> > your limit. I basically think that each OS5 Handheld should have at least
> > 400KB(The TT has 800, but with an MP3 player it gets much less)
> > Best Regards
> > Tam Hanna
> > Luc le Blanc wrote
> >
> > I previously wrote :
> >
> > > Where can I obtain the device-dependent amount of dynamic heap
> > > memory available to programs? PalmOne used to maintain:
> > >
> > > http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/hardware/compare.html
> > >
> > > but they no longer do, and it only covered PalmOne devices.
> >
> > Oops. This latter sentence is wrong. But the page is unmaintained.
>
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