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> "Actually 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently," Interesting. S
by spacechild1 3y ago
> "Actually 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently,"
Interesting. So my sound samples magically shrink by a factor of two?
- jowea 3y agoYou use the processor power to compress it 2x! /s
- pornel 3y agoThey literally do. Since 10.9, before paging to disk, they try compress the memory instead. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/
- spacechild1 3y agoAs do Windows and Linux. Just in case someone takes this as a serious argument in favor of Apple :)
- cesarb 3y ago> As do Windows and Linux Just to nitpick, on Linux it depends on your distribution (or yourself) having enabled zram; some modern distributions enable it by default on recent releases, but yours might not have.
- jowea 3y agoAnd for anyone who is on a distro who hasn't IMHO you absolute should enable it yourself on your personal machine unless you have 128GB or something.
- ebb_earl_co 3y agoI’m using Pop!_OS 22.04: how can I go about checking if this is enabled and enable it if not?
- jowea 3y agoSays here it's enabled by default now https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/104kbs4/zram_now_enabled_by_default_in_pop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/104kbs4/zram_now_en... You can run 'zramctl' to see the current status of the zram devices.