I have a great idea!!

[colinkiama]

Wouldn't the problem of ram dissapear if ram was shared throughout all the apps like in android.

 

[Reflexx]

What problem are you referring to?

And what do you man by "sharing of RAM"? When a program runs, it requests resources from the OS. Those resources belong to that program until it releases it.

 

[unnatixlr8]

Sorry if I am incorrect. But I think this would be at the cost of phone performance.

 

[Huime]

how do you share anyways? You mean repeatably rewrites every bit by multiple app?

 

[Gautam Kabiraj]

Then WP would surely meet the same fate as that of Android. Buggy and Laggy. Don't forget most of the RAM you have gets reserved for system performance and apps are secondary that's what makes WP "butter smooth" both for performance and apps execution. Sharing of RAM between opened apps (if you exactly mean so) would cause system instability since WP8 OS actually requires more RAM as compared to Android for system services (For eg, lives tiles are updated every 30 mins, push notifications from apps etc).

 

[colinkiama]

Well what if the ram required for the system and os was reserved but the running apps shared the rest of the ram. If an app requires lots of ram, we can remove other apps using the multitask menu, that debuted in GDR3.

 

[xandros9]

shared?

I dont consider myself technologically inept, but I never heard of sharing RAM.

I feel like it isn't as simple as flipping a switch and getting something for nothing.

 

[Reflexx]

Well what if the ram required for the system and os was reserved but the running apps shared the rest of the ram. If an app requires lots of ram, we can remove other apps using the multitask menu, that debuted in GDR3.

If your foreground app requires too many resources, your background app will let go of those resources already.

Could you further explain what you mean?

 

[Microsoftjunkie]

Well what if the ram required for the system and os was reserved but the running apps shared the rest of the ram. If an app requires lots of ram, we can remove other apps using the multitask menu, that debuted in GDR3.

iisn'tthat how wWPworks already. if iIhave 8 opened apps and I open a game. the needed amount of ram will cone from one or some of those apps by getting closed out.

 

[psiu_glen]

The "open" apps are already tombstoned for fast resume, they aren't actively running and holding ram anyway, (though the most recent may well still be stored in it). Still not sure what problem we are trying to fix, or what the fix actually is yet...