alt Hacker NewsThat’s not particularly unique, Mac OS and Windows have had compressed memory for years. No fiddling with setting needed either.
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AdamN • today at 10:44 AM
It's not just that it's compressed - the OS is also intelligently handling which memory should be on hardware vs. virtual. Effectively a lot of the memory concerns have been offloaded to the OS and the VM where one exists.
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> No fiddling with setting needed either.
It's since become the default in several distributions, including Fedora.