• explodicle@local106.com
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t it kill your hard drive quickly if every bit in memory was constantly written there - if it was all virtual memory? I think of it like “stuff in my desk” vs “stuff on top of my desk”, and now nobody mixes up the papers on my desk when I walk away.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That’s what RAM is. Following your analogy, you’ll put stuff occasionally inside the desk when you’re done with it, and keep working what’s on your desk. I see persistent ram as like working inside the desk, which is a bit weird to me. Or a desk that just never gets cleaned up.