Snow Leopard Ram Usage

[waloshin]

What is with all the questions of more than 8 gigabytes of ram with the new Macbook and the Macbook Pro? Does this mean the Snow Leopard will use more ram than Leopard, kinda like Xp to Vista? When in Xp 1 to 2 gigabytes or ram was sufficient, then when Vista came along you needed at least 2 - 4 gigabytes of ram.

 

[GGJstudios]

No one knows until it's released.

 

[waloshin]

No one knows until it's released.

Ya that is true.

 

[nick9191]

Same requirements as Leopard I'd guess.

Apple are working on efficiency with this release not more bloatware.

 

[Catfish_Man]

I would expect slightly less in general, but slightly more if 32 bit and 64 bit apps are running at the same time (see http://andymatuschak.org/articles/2008/07/02/why-you-need-to-build-64-bit/ ).

 

[mattluc]

I imagine it's going to still be a while before most apps are 64-bit. So wouldn't one of apple's goals in streamlining leopard into snow leopard be to decrease the ram usage when loading any combination of 32/64-bit apps?

 

[Catfish_Man]

There's not a whole lot they can do about it, tbh. I suppose they can work to lower the footprint of the libraries overall*, but that just changes the constant factor, not the multiplier. The main thing I can think of is leaning pretty hard on developers to get their apps running 64 bit.


*which is why I predict slightly lower usage when running 64bit only, despite larger pointers.