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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by darren_ on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:28PM (#25204640)
Yes, reading some more of the discussions it seems like the answer is that (roughly) the same amount of memory is used, but hitting swap is no longer a major problem, at least for user-facing apps. Seems like the original quote is reading too much into the retain/release thing.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by jml7c5 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:38PM (#25204704)
If the same amount of memory is used, then wouldn't swap usage be the same?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by garretraziel on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:59AM (#25207947)
Yeah, but swapping suddenly isn't as big problem as before (probably). You had to be very careful not to hit trashing on x86_64, now you don't have to worry so much.

Or that's how I understand this, I don't actually own M1 Mac.

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