Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:13:14 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem |
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Greg Ungerer wrote: > One thing for sure is that many people who do non-MMU setups > are interested in XIP to get the space savings. These are very > often small devices with very constrained RAM and flash. (For > whatever it is worth single NOR flash only boards are common in > these smaller form factors :-)
I'm using XIP on a device with 32MB RAM. The reason I use it is _partly_ to save RAM, partly because programs start about 10 times faster (reading NOR flash is slow and I keep the XIP region in RAM) and partly because it reduces memory fragmentation.
-- Jamie
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