Apple introduces M4 chip

Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by anaisbetts on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:03PM (#40289279)

Every modern operating system now does memory compression

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by astrange on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:08PM (#40289352)

Some of them do it better than others though.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by Rinzler89 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:01PM (#40290083)

Apple uses Magic Compression.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by adamomada on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:34PM (#40291127)

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.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by throwaway744678 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:51PM (#40291312)

This is a revolution

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by anaisbetts on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:45AM (#40296452)

Citation needed?

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by astrange on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:17PM (#40302796)

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

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