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> 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 poin
by 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...