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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Well, the alternative is to either have the OS become progressively more sluggish, and ultimately crash, use more storage space (which, cannot be depended on, due to manufacturor decisions.), or not attempt to do it at all.
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Or, the OS can make better use of the available hardware; say, virtual memory swapping or a separate state-mapping buffer. Those are *old* problems that were solved decades ago by experienced OS developers who, BTW, had a lot *less* to work with than even the meanest android-hosting hardware.