J2ME memory usage -vs- recordstore access time

[dutone]

since writein' large records to a RecordStore can be time consuming,
would anyone advise cachein' data to avoid so many reads? (Assuming
that the app. wanted to minimize to long delays) Maybe network reads
could be cached too. But then the cache would have to be somewhat
restricted given the limited memory of many devices, and could impose
a burden of the app its self if it got to big. Efficent managment of
the cache across platforms could become complex and a project withen
its self.
Any thoughts.....

 

[Darryl L. Pierce]

since writein' large records to a RecordStore can be time consuming,
would anyone advise cachein' data to avoid so many reads? (Assuming
that the app. wanted to minimize to long delays)

My experience has been that RMS on alot of devices is painfully slow. If you
have to go to RMS a lot then yes it's a better trade off to cache some data
in memory. If, however, you only pull data infrequently then I wouldn't
waste the precious heap space on caching.