A new feature in Apple's upcoming OS X is reminiscent of a past technology for enhancing RAM use in Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

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I'll second that, RAM compression has existed for ages in macOS too. However, AS introduced iirc some further hardware support, that basically reduces significantly the overhead. (Instead of running ...

Phone smooth performance stays fluid with less RAM thanks to iOS RAM optimization, tight hardware integration, and smarter ...

There are few free lunches in the world of computers, though sometimes it might seem otherwise. Compression software, for example, can squeeze the information on a hard drive into as little as one ...

Flash caching software provider PernixData has upgraded its FVP product to include RAM compression and the ability to offload workloads unsuited to solid state acceleration to SAN or NAS shared ...

Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory. The new Compressed ...

Back in 1995 ram was expensive and in high demand. Some people turned to (sudders) ram compression software.<P>Ram compression software as you can imagine is simply a really bad idea. Rather then make ...