Balanced XIP and the AXFS filesystem

clipped from linuxdevices.com Balanced XIP and the AXFS filesystem — May 09, 2008 — This whitepaper compares four approaches to storing program code on flash memory, including eXecute-in-place (XIP), fully shadowed, demand paging, and "balanced" XIP. It concludes that balanced XIP can save memory costs, while lowering launch time, especially when used with the open source AXFS (advanced XIP filing system) for Linux. ...