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st3fantoday at 2:12 AM1 replyview on HN

It is an old trick https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/RAM_Doubler


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alwillistoday at 2:31 AM

RAM Doubler was a third-party application in the days when a top-of-the-line Mac had 128MB of RAM, with a 40Mhz processor. The level 2 cache was 256 bytes.

That's not in the same universe as hardware compression on a 6-core, 64-bit ARM processor with cores that can run at 4GHz.