Ram Help Needed

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If I create a program with more space than I have in my RAM will It take Data from the Archive section?

Ram Help Needed

CodeMaster123 12 Aug 2015 18:02

If I create a program with more space than I have in my RAM will It take Data from the Archive section?

Re: Ram Help Needed

Michael2_3B 12 Aug 2015 18:25

First of all, please don't double post. If you misspell your title, you can just edit it instead I believe(under options, lower right of your post). Otherwise you can just leave it alone.

In regards to your question - I have never encountered this before, so I am not completely credible, but my guess is that no, it does not take Data from the Archive section. Instead, the editor will block you from adding anything more to your program, until you delete enough data that you can put more in. Just like how your cursor forms a checkerboard style when you make your program name the max length, the same for when you run out of RAM when writing in the program editor.

I could be wrong, but that sounds fairly correct to me.

Re: Ram Help Needed

Trenly 12 Aug 2015 19:29

What Michael said is correct. I tested it. When writing a program, it will turn to the checkerboard cursor if you run out of ram. To free up more ram, you can move your programs to the archive. Just remember, any loops such as For(, Repeat, If-Then, IS>, and DS< all take up space when running the program!

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The method of testing:

I ran the following program, and then tried to add many more lines of useless code.

For(A,1,999)
1->L1(A)
1->L2(A)
1->L3(A)
End

Last edited on 12 Aug 2015 19:35 by Trenly Show more

Re: Ram Help Needed

lirtosiast 12 Aug 2015 20:46

Note first that IS>( and DS<( aren't loops, and second that the TI-BASIC interpreter itself (even outside of loops) needs some stack space to run your program. When you type 2+2, the interpreter needs to store both operands on a stack and then add them, which takes at least 18 bytes. Even an empty program takes about 250 bytes to run.

Re: Ram Help Needed

Trenly 13 Aug 2015 03:07

Really. I guess it makes sense that they aren't loops… Forgot that they don't repeat