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The iPhone doesn't swap because its flash memory is REALLY CRAPPY. It's terribly slow at even the easiest stuff like streaming reads. Swapping to it would cause
by blasdel 18y ago
The iPhone doesn't swap because its flash memory is REALLY CRAPPY. It's terribly slow at even the easiest stuff like streaming reads. Swapping to it would cause epic grinding, so they don't do it (the flash wear that people usually trot out is irrelevant).
- jmtulloss 18y agoWhile I agree with you, I'd like to know why you think flash wear is irrelevant.
- kvs 18y agoI don't know whether it is a reading issue. It might be a write issue, however. Flash can only allow so many write-cycles, and thrashing is a good way to guarantee flash running out of write-cycles.