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		astrange on May 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple introduces M4 chip Some of them do it better than others though.

Rinzler89 on May 7, 2024 | [–]

Apple uses Magic Compression.

adamomada on May 7, 2024 | | [–]

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 on May 7, 2024 | | | [–]

This is a revolution

anaisbetts on May 8, 2024 | [–]

Citation needed?

astrange on May 8, 2024 | [–]

Don't know if I'm allowed to. It's not that special though.

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