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aurareturnyesterday at 7:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Swap on macOS is incredibly good. Not sure how Apple does it. Maybe hardware compression?


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longislandguidoyesterday at 10:55 PM

> Not sure how Apple does it.

They do it by prematurely wearing down the soldered SSD just in time for you to buy a new laptop.

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p_ingtoday at 1:45 AM

It's no different from NT in that respect. macOS is significantly worse at handling OOM events than NT (even NT4, for that matter).