>That makes for the stinky situation of possibly having no system ram if a
>lot of other apps are open, and an empty app heap that could be used
>otherwise. :)
Not if you use a minimal allocation for your app. Remember it doesn't 
need to be ready for lots of data, because that will go on the system 
heap. 

Seems almost ideal to me--App has small footprint, handles whomping big 
data.

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