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I’m guessing swapping happens quicker, perhaps due to the unified memory architecture. With quicker swapping you’d be less likely to notice a delay. That said
by wsc981 6y ago
I’m guessing swapping happens quicker, perhaps due to the unified memory architecture. With quicker swapping you’d be less likely to notice a delay.
That said I’d still be very hesitant buying a 8 GB M1 Mac. When my iMac only had 8 GB it was a real pain to use. Increasing my iMac’s memory to 24 GB made it usable.
- fomine3 6y agoBottleneck for swap in/out must be SSD, not memory. Also its SSD isn't fast compared to other NVMe SSDs in both throughput and IOPS. Possibly latency is great thanks to integrated SSD controller onto M1 but I don't think it changes the game.
- amelius 6y agoIs a SSD suitable for swap, given its limited number of write cycles?
- foldr 6y agoWhen I looked into this, the information I found suggested that modern consumer SSDs generally have more than enough write cycles to spare for any plausible use case. Possibly this was more of an issue five to ten years ago.