Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple

• thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m specifically talking about the in memory compression, not swap.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But memory compression works the same way swap works. When memory is needed LRU page is written on disk compressed, and where application needs to read data from compressed page it generates pagefault and OS loads(decompresses) page in memory. That’s it.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It can be compressed in RAM, too.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks, cap, this is what I said.

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