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Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression

Posted by Soulskill on from the start-with-my-browser dept.

jones_supa writes: Even though the RTM version of Windows 10 is already out of the door, Microsoft will keep releasing beta builds of the operating system to Windows Insiders. The first one will be build 10525, which introduces some color personalization options, but also interesting improvements to memory management. A new concept is called a compression store, which is an in-memory collection of compressed pages. When memory pressure gets high enough, stale pages will be compressed instead of swapping them out. The compression store will live in the System process's working set. As usual, Microsoft will be receiving comments on the new features via the Feedback app.

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  1. Yay! Color options by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny

    , which introduces some color personalization options, ...

    You no longer have to put up with the blue screen of death. Now you have the option to have speckled, sparkled, opalescent, translucent, scintillating, coruscant, flourescent, effervescent blue screens of death.

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  2. Windows Memory Manager by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean I have to put HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE back into my config.sys file? I think I still remember some of the MS-DOS edit commands.

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