John Siracusa: In Mavericks, the OS has one more option before it has to resort to swapping: compressed memory. Mavericks will find the least-recently-used data in memory and compress it, usually to about half its original size. Et voilà, more free memory. […] Memory compression is a triple play for Mavericks. It’s a performance win; … Continue reading What Exactly Is “Compressed Memory”?