Hello, I'm learning game programming at school, and I want to use my USB drive to store my work etc.
I wanted to know that if for example the portable putty or portable notepad++ do less memory access than the original programs, so it doesn't make unnecessary memory access when using the executable, launching it directly when it's on the USB drive...
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No, it accesses memory exactly the same amount.
All we do here is move files, and enter registry settings automatically before we run the program so it runs as if it would straight off the hard drive.
I think that sums up what you were asking.
Shane Thompson
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Okay thanks for the tip.
Some apps are already usable directly on an USB drive like notepad++, but some like putty are not...
I think you're confusing Random Access Memory with disks space. Many of the portable apps are modified with default settings that try to limit the amount of time they spend writing to a disk. Firefox Portable is such an example, whereby the disk cache is turned off by default I believe to try to avoid unnecessary writing to the (USB) disk (thus helping to extend a drive's life).
In terms of RAM usage, the portable versions should match their regular counterparts almost exactly except that a small amount of additional RAM is taken up by the launcher program for each portable app that takes care of all the settings (cleaning out the registry and that sort of thing, if necessary).