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The downvotes have already spoken to this to some extent, but who cares? My Macbook Pro is slow enough in general running OS X, and especially so when RAM gets
by gtaylor 13y ago
The downvotes have already spoken to this to some extent, but who cares? My Macbook Pro is slow enough in general running OS X, and especially so when RAM gets tight. I'm not sure I'd want to add this additional overhead.
I see this more as an additional tool in the box than something appropriate for 100% of Linux users. You'll know when you need it, but most probably won't.
- mikevm 13y agoIt seems that people mistook the "tone" of my post. I didn't post it in an attempt to say that OS X is somehow superior, I just thought that people might find it interesting that this is the same feature that was shown in the last WWDC keynote -- and now Linux has it too! (I'm not a Mac user, by the way.)
- Shish2k 13y ago> My Macbook Pro is slow enough in general running OS X, and especially so when RAM gets tight. I'm not sure I'd want to add this additional overhead. The point of this is that it makes things /faster/, not /slower/. It's essentially trading 1GB of DDR3 for 3GB of DDR1, which is a net gain when your ram amount is more of a bottleneck than ram speed (which it pretty much always is, IME)
- gtaylor 13y agoI thought we were talking about compressing swap space? That's not really DDR-anything, it's slow-as-a-dog, last resort type stuff. Depending on the compression algorithm, compression level, and a number of other factors, this could be worse for some usage cases. I'm skeptical that this is a big win in the case of Linux OR Mac OS, given that you want to avoid heavy swap usage to begin with. Especially as cheap as RAM is...