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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple (www.macrumors.com)
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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

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[–] uis@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But memory compression works the same way swap works. When memory is needed LRU page is ~~written on disk~~ compressed, and where application needs to read data from compressed page it generates pagefault and OS loads(decompresses) page in memory. That's it.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can be compressed in RAM, too.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks, cap, this is what I said.