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APFS does indeed do compression, the rationale being that compute is cheaper than I/O. Even if most files on a typical personal computer are already inherently
by yakkers 7y ago
APFS does indeed do compression, the rationale being that compute is cheaper than I/O.
Even if most files on a typical personal computer are already inherently compressed (JPEG photos, lossy audio, etc.), you're not losing any performance, and are gaining some extra space where possible.