• Exec@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too.

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        RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

        Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

        Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

        Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use.

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            1 year ago

            What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform.

            I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn’t do any caching. Even vxworks does caching.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what I was most worried about, i’d heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I’ll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible.