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Every modern operating system now does memory compression

• astrange 2y ago
  Some of them do it better than others though.
  • Rinzler89 2y ago
    Apple uses Magic Compression.
    • adamomada 2y ago
      Not sure what windows does but the popular method on e.g. fedora is to split memory into main and swap and then compress swap. It could be more efficient the way Apple does it by not having to partition main memory.
    • throwaway744678 2y ago
      This is a revolution
  • anaisbetts 2y ago
    Citation needed?
    • astrange 2y ago
      Don't know if I'm allowed to. It's not that special though.
• deleted 2y ago
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