Thread: 256mb for installable aplications?? Am I awake or is this only a bad dream?
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eber42 is offline eber42
2009-10-02 , 05:42
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
There is no reason why you couldn't do that on a N900. However, if it was the first thing you did with your N810, you probably didn't notice that the original root flash is significantly faster than the internal MMC Also, there are several reasons why you don't want to be swapping on the same card on which your root is on.
I've also used OS from original root flash sometime, and i agree it was a bit faster (main difference is large applications start time and boot time), but that was not a big change in usability for me. I feel the main performance limitation on n810 has been small RAM + slow swap.

But I think Nokia choose the right solution for N900, because it will be adequate for 99% of users, and any performance improvement is important because i'm sure people will post video on youtube with speed comparison between iphone and n900 for basic tasks .

And people who will prefer to have the convenience of a large root filesystem (even with some trade-off) will be able to do it.

BTW N900 will also run "optified" applications from mmc, so I assume you'll get no gain (or small one because of system shared libs used) for third party applications.


PS: You gave me an idea: I'll try to put my swap on the small and fast flash memory. Anyone tried this ?