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AdamNtoday at 10:44 AM1 replyview on HN

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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the-grumptoday at 10:58 AM

Isn't that literally every modern OS, always, unless you tell it to act differently?