摘要 |
<p>Embodiments of the present invention apply virtual memory techniques to a system provided with storage in which software components must be read from one part of the storage as whole components, but may read in the form of pages from another part of the storage, which may be the same or a different storage medium. This allows paging techniques to be applied to the sort of composite file system wherein part of a memory cannot be paged, and another part of a memory can. The use of paging of those software components which are able to be paged provides an effective RAM saving, and a device can be provided which requires less RAM to operate efficiently than has heretofore been the case.</p> |