How does win 7 handle 8gb dual channel with 32 bit apps?

[petteyg359]

RAM /= Pagefile though.

Programmers use !=, and everybody else should open up charmap.exe or KCharSelect and find ≠

I think your statement is false, anyway. Primary storage is primary storage. It doesn't matter whether is it on DRAM, NAND, or a spinning platter; it is still primary storage, commonly referred to as RAM.

 

[EarthDog]

Too lazy to do that. You got the message.

You can think that, but there are cleary two definitions of the items. While they both may be "primary storage", RAM != Pagefile! Flash mem vs HDD(SSD which is still slower than ram), lightning fast vs brutally slow. Night, meet day P).

Being serious a pagefile is an extension of ram (when it runs out its used, or sometimes needed for uncommonly used files for applications), it is not ram, nor have I ever heard it commonly referred to as ram.

 

[petteyg359]

DRAM is simply an application of primary storage. The actual storage method is irrelevant. The fact that is is primary storage is what matters. If you have a 32-bit XP system, with 16GB RAM installed, then install SuperSpeed RamDisk and set up a 12GB RAM drive, and put a 12GB swap file on it, does it magically turn into RAM by your reasoning? Primary storage is primary storage. (But does putting primary storage on a virtual secondary storage device in primary storage make it super-primary, or does the virtual secondary cancel it out? ) An apple and an orange may be different physically, and people will never stop arguing about which is better, but that doesn't change the fact that both are food.

 

[EarthDog]

Ramdisk != RAM either! This is getting a bit out off topic though.

 

[hansen]

I think it originated from post 3. The part about seperate address spaces. 1 process can normally allocate 2 GB. 2 processes can allocate 4 GB. Etc. The process of allocating memory doesn't really care if it is physical ram or harddrive storage.