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Is 1GiB considered 'little RAM' these days for an embedded board?
by pantalaimon 5y ago
Is 1GiB considered 'little RAM' these days for an embedded board?
- cestith 5y agoPerhaps not for embedded, but it's being compared to a development board with 16 GB.
- rwmj 5y agoI actually thought the board above had only 512 MB, hence my comment, but even 1 GB is quite limiting. The HiFive Unleashed (previous SiFive board) has 8 GB and that is quite tight for some of the larger builds we do, or for doing parallel builds. The bigger problem with the board above is the single core.
- pantalaimon 5y agoWhy not cross-compile?
- ibotty 5y agoDistributions tend not to like cross-compiling, because it's not as flexible (how do you run test-programs?) and sometimes has bugs you don't have when native compiling.
- mrlonglong 5y agoI have an ARM board with 4 A53 cores with just 1GB of RAM. Despite these limitations I can successfully cross compile from my host. So yes, under circumstances memory might not be such a big issue.