tom95521 Posted November 24, 2020 Report Share Posted November 24, 2020 While waiting for my mac mini to arrive I've been looking for a good performance monitor. This one has a large amount of information and is popular. It has been updated for silicon Macs.https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ and another that is used to test RAM and temps on the silicon Macs.. https://www.imagetasks.com/istatistica/pro/ Multicore processors are excellent for memory compression. It's amazing how fast the processor can compress/decompress memory so you can run multiple programs with 1/2 the amount of physical memory required without compression. This is one of the reasons why an 8GB M1 Mac is able to perform as well as a 16GB Intel Mac. Both Windows, Macs, and Linux have memory compression. Probably iOS and Android too. Currently my Ryzen Windows 10 computer is compressing 1.6GB of data in 400 MB of RAM.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compressionhttps://www.howtogeek.com/319933/what-is-memory-compression-in-windows-10/https://www.lifewire.com/understanding-compressed-memory-os-x-2260327 Tom The iStatistica performance monitoring software was utilized when comparing 8 GB to 16 GB Macbook Pro laptops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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