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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, of course not. Why have all that RAM and not use any of it? This is a very common misunderstanding.

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is true but only to a point. I have 64GB of RAM and I have seen Photoshop overshoot that and start eating up 20gb of page file. Working with the exact same files in Affinity Photo - it uses a quarter of that.

    There is a difference between “Efficiently use available memory for program functions” and “Fill all available memory with bloat and poorly coded rubbish”

    If your software’s function can be replicated using only 1/4 of system memory then your software is poorly written. Which Photoshop is.

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  • AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The benefit of having unused RAM is that every program you are using can remain in memory for quick multitasking access and when you go to launch a new program it can be loaded into that unused RAM without unloading any of the currently running programs. What part about that is a misunderstanding? Would the user be better of if the application in focus aggressively reserved RAM it didn’t need to slow down every other running applications?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What part about that is a misunderstanding?

      The part where you assumed 20GB is 100% of OP’s RAM, leaving nothing for any other programs.

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