Just a Drink.
Just a Drink.
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I remember when virtual ram was a thing. I can't remember exactly how it worked but IIRC software designated part of your hard disk as temporary ram. Which is a convoluted way of saying it used to be possible
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It is still possible. Its called swap
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swap is way slower than physical RAM though
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PCIe4 NVME is faster than DDR1 used to be.
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Uhh kinda. I don't think latency is anywhere near 70ns on a NVMe drive, so it would still be ridiculously slow compared to ddr1 even for most tasks.
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The backup ram isn't as good as a dedicated one? Color me shocked
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Nowadays people like zram swap
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Used to be?
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Yup, it's swap on nix and "page file" or whatever on Windows. Without it, the OS would have to kill apps or just crash when it runs out.
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I'm aware. I was hoping op could expound on their statement.
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i haven't explicitly used it since i had a 386, forgive me if my memory's rusty
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29 comments