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Re:Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction ... by gumby on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:35PM (#31819139)
> …i mean the compression in memory have been always a very efficient approach.

It’s quite possible that a large amount of stuff FB handles is already compressed (e.g. photos, video, and audio) and thus doesn’t offer much opportunity for further compression. Though I wonder how much of that stuff would be memory resident in the back end in the first place.

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