PlecoDict on a 200MHz Pocket PC?
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It should be plenty fast enough to run our software - http://www.mobiletechreview.com/cingular-8125.htm says that it feels more like a 300-400 MHz unit, and we have many other customers running PlecoDict quite well on the 8125 and other models with the same design / processor.
MHz ratings can be rather deceptive, actually; they're as much dependent on the design of the processor as on its speed. MHz are a measure of how many cycles a processor goes through per second, but it's up to the processor's designer to decide how much work gets done in a cycle, and some companies (like Intel) will specifically design processors to have a high clock speed even if it makes them less efficient than a processor with a lower one.
MHz ratings can be rather deceptive, actually; they're as much dependent on the design of the processor as on its speed. MHz are a measure of how many cycles a processor goes through per second, but it's up to the processor's designer to decide how much work gets done in a cycle, and some companies (like Intel) will specifically design processors to have a high clock speed even if it makes them less efficient than a processor with a lower one.
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Some notes:
- Install program did not seem to correctly detect available space on 1gb MiniSD card (larger variable needed?).
- Manual install was required, but perhaps ActiveSync 4.2 fixes this problem.
Thanks again!
Thanks, Mr. Love. I tried it and decided to keep the phone and buy your software. The phone does feel quite fast when doing one thing at a time, with no other programs running. Try to run a few things at once and it gets quite confused.mikelove said:
Some notes:
- Install program did not seem to correctly detect available space on 1gb MiniSD card (larger variable needed?).
- Manual install was required, but perhaps ActiveSync 4.2 fixes this problem.
Thanks again!
Glad to hear it. Regarding your notes, the memory card detection thing is actually a Microsoft bug - basically everything that happens after the component selection screen is stuff that's built into ActiveSync.
The manual install problem is another thing I can blame on Microsoft, though it's more of a design flaw than an actual bug. In older versions of Windows Mobile, when you installed a file to a memory card, the file would be copied over to the memory card directly from your computer. In Windows Mobile 5, however, Microsoft changed this so that files would have to be stored in internal memory before they could be copied over; hence, if you have plenty of space for the files on a memory card but not enough space in internal memory, you can run into problems that necessitate a manual install.
We do have a way of working around this which we're considering incorporating into PlecoDict 2.0 - basically, we'll write our own installer system that circuments Microsoft's completely and copies files to where they're supposed to be copied. Not a small amount of work, but the current Pocket PC install situation isn't pretty and we don't see any other way to improve it.
The manual install problem is another thing I can blame on Microsoft, though it's more of a design flaw than an actual bug. In older versions of Windows Mobile, when you installed a file to a memory card, the file would be copied over to the memory card directly from your computer. In Windows Mobile 5, however, Microsoft changed this so that files would have to be stored in internal memory before they could be copied over; hence, if you have plenty of space for the files on a memory card but not enough space in internal memory, you can run into problems that necessitate a manual install.
We do have a way of working around this which we're considering incorporating into PlecoDict 2.0 - basically, we'll write our own installer system that circuments Microsoft's completely and copies files to where they're supposed to be copied. Not a small amount of work, but the current Pocket PC install situation isn't pretty and we don't see any other way to improve it.