The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance.
  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If you were like me and jumped straight past the headline to hoping this would somehow magically expand your RAM in these times of darkness… it won’t.

    Unless I’m reading wrong this is essentially a program from Meta engineers designed to replace zram and zswap and make them faster. It will not give you more free memory - in fact, this uses RAM instead of hard disk swap space so is most likely going to utilize additional ram.

    Sigh.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      No, it compresses data in RAM, so whatever you have in ram takes up less space there.