Post #1966339
2026-04-29 22:17 UTC
With the DRAM shortage, maybe it's time for RAM Doubler and other assorted scamware to make a comeback. On that note, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=105897
Replies (3)
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@jkaniarz@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-29 22:28
@pervognsen RAM Doubler has been baked into macOS for years. It compresses pages as an intermediate step before swapping to disk.
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@dominikg@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-29 23:21
@pervognsen I do believe Windows now has memory compression built in. But that was a good read.
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@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-30 03:00
@pervognsen I dunno, I realize RAM compression is totally different from hard disk comperssion, but the way MS shit on Stac in the 90s as they pushed their monopoly--which I was there for, in my 20s--left a really bad taste in my mouth on this subject area, to the point where this sort of blog post starts to feel too hagiographic for me.