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amomchilovtoday at 4:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Recent macOS versions zero out memory on free, which improves the efficacy of memory compression. Apparently it’s a net performance gain in the average case


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LoganDarktoday at 12:00 PM

I wonder if Apple Silicon has hardware acceleration for memory zeroing... Knowing Apple, I wouldn't be surprised.

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