"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
GPU can do decompression. Static power consumption of DRAM refresh for 8x as much RAM as you should need has got to be a bigger overall batt life cost than dynamic consumption under active use...
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as far as I know no existing system actually powers down unused RAM because all accesses are interleaved across every chip
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this is, of course, done because faster RAM access means faster race-to-idle for the CPU cores, which has obvious immediate benefits.
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