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Is there anyway that an iPhone or any smartphone in general could borrow/share the memory from a PC (or any of it's other similar resources). I would quite assume but correct me if I'm wrong that this wouldn't be possible with the current USB speeds but perhaps some way this idea could be a reality?

I ask this because my iPhone and other smartphones have struggled with low memory issues and was very curious if it would be physically possible to achieve this type of device resource sharing. Any feedback you have on why or why this wouldn't work now/ever is appreciated.

Giacomo1968
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Theoretically, yes. In reality, It's a REALLY bad idea.

There is the possibility to use the PC RAM in a really convoluted way, but it would be much to slow to be of any use.

The first thing that comes to mind is using a RAM Disk on the PC, accessing it from the iPhone (mounting it in some way, I'm sure there's a command line tool for it) then creating a SWAP file on that RAM Disk. Extremely slow, but possible.

One could speed up the process by creating the software to be passing raw bits instead of protocol overhead and to only be using the RAM on the PC that's required.

Keltari
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