why is writing to eeprom is as fast as writing to RAM?

hello I wrote an applet that checks the speed of writing operations to EEPROM and
writing operation to RAM and I received the same result for both which is wierd.

My check was on 2 cards: Schlumberger cyberflex access 32k and Gemplus gemexpresso 211PKIS.


I added the applet main code here:

			

			public class AES extends Applet
			

			{
			

			final static byte AES_CLA = (byte) 0xB0;
			

			final static byte AES_INS_Check1 = (byte)0x7;
			

			final static byte AES_INS_Check2 = (byte)0x8;
			

			

			// both presistent object
			

			static byte arrEEPROM[];
			

			static byte arrRAM[]; // will be a presisten reference to a traient object
			

			

			protected AES(byte[] buffer, short offset, byte length)
			

			{
			

			.
			

			.
			

			.
			

			

			

			arrEEPROM = new byte[(byte)16];
			

			}
			

			

			public boolean select()
			

			{
			

			// create an array of 16 bytes inside the RAM.
			

			arrRAM = JCSystem.makeTransientByteArray((byte)16,
			

			(byte)JCSystem.CLEAR_ON_DESELECT);
			

			

			return true;
			

			}
			

			.
			

			.
			

			.
			

			public void process(APDU apdu)
			

			{
			

			byte buffer[] = apdu.getBuffer();
			

			byte cla = buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_CLA];
			

			byte ins = buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_INS];
			

			

			if (cla == ISO7816.CLA_ISO7816 && ins == ISO7816.INS_SELECT)
			

			{
			

			// After (byte)e're selected, the JCRE passes us the SELECT APDU
			

			// that (byte)as sent to the smart card. There's nothing special
			

			// (byte)e (byte)ant to do here.
			

			return;
			

			}
			

			

			if (cla != AES_CLA)
			

			ISOException.throwIt(ISO7816.SW_CLA_NOT_SUPPORTED);
			

			

			switch (ins)
			

			{
			

			case AES_INS_Check2:
			

			Check2(apdu);
			

			return;
			

			case AES_INS_Check1:
			

			Check1(apdu);
			

			return;
			

			default:
			

			ISOException.throwIt(ISO7816.SW_CLA_NOT_SUPPORTED);
			

			}
			

			}
			

			

			

			

			

			private void Check1(APDU apdu)
			

			{
			

			byte buffer[] = apdu.getBuffer();
			

			byte p1 = buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_P1];
			

			byte p2 = buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_P2];
			

			short x;
			

			short sLoopTimes = Util.makeShort(p2,p1);
			

			//byte bytesRead = (byte)(apdu.setIncomingAndReceive());
			

			

			try
			

			{
			

			for (short i=0; i
			

			{
			

			arrEEPROM[0] = 0;
			

			arrEEPROM[1] = 1;
			

			arrEEPROM[2] = 2;
			

			arrEEPROM[3] = 1;
			

			arrEEPROM[4] = 1;
			

			arrEEPROM[5] = 1;
			

			arrEEPROM[6] = 1;
			

			arrEEPROM[7] = 2;
			

			arrEEPROM[8] = 3;
			

			arrEEPROM[9] = 4;
			

			arrEEPROM[10] = 5;
			

			arrEEPROM[11] = 6;
			

			arrEEPROM[12] = 7;
			

			arrEEPROM[13] = 8;
			

			arrEEPROM[14] = 8;
			

			arrEEPROM[15] = 7;
			

			}
			

			}
			

			catch (ArrayStoreException ArrayRef)
			

			{
			

			ISOException.throwIt(ISO7816.SW_FILE_NOT_FOUND);
			

			}
			

			

			}
			

			

			private void Check2(APDU apdu)
			

			{
			

			byte buffer[] = apdu.getBuffer();
			

			byte p1 = buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_P1];
			

			byte p2 = buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_P2];
			

			short sLoopTimes = Util.makeShort(p2,p1);
			

			

			for (short i=0; i
			

			{
			

			arrRAM[0] = 0;
			

			arrRAM[1] = 1;
			

			arrRAM[2] = 2;
			

			arrRAM[3] = 1;
			

			arrRAM[4] = 1;
			

			arrRAM[5] = 1;
			

			arrRAM[6] = 1;
			

			arrRAM[7] = 2;
			

			arrRAM[8] = 3;
			

			arrRAM[9] = 4;
			

			arrRAM[10] = 5;
			

			arrRAM[11] = 6;
			

			arrRAM[12] = 7;
			

			arrRAM[13] = 8;
			

			arrRAM[14] = 8;
			

			arrRAM[15] = 7;
			

			}
			

			}