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

• 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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