> There's a subproject of the One Laptop Per
Child project that is
> creating a virtualized swap file with compressed swapped pages. Then
> you could swap to a RAM filesystem. It would work well for
> uncompressed data but obviously it wouldn't work well for jpgs, pngs,
> etc.
Swap is to create the illusion of more memory by
using a slower medium
(like disks) to backup the physical RAM. What, exactly, is the point of
swapping RAM to RAM?
Because it would be compressed on the fly, so theoretically, you'd get
"more RAM out of RAM."
Theoretically. :)
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