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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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What are they doing that makes software in the Mac universe that much more memory efficient?
I went from 8GB to 32GB on my laptop. It was second only to going from HDD to SSD. The difference was nowhere near as apparent though. My usage experience went from being able to tell when the kernel was hitting swap space to not having to care at all anymore about the how the kernel is doing with memory management.
apple may make software that doesnt require more than 8GB of memory, but a lot of developers that arent apple dont take that into consideration.
"memory is infinite" is a modern day slogan when building simple cross-platform apps because there is so much to use on normal computers.
there is even a joke for electron apps in this regard: how much memory does an electron app need to run? more.