It's not just that it's compressed - the OS is also intelligently handling which memory should be on hardware vs. virtual. Effectively a lot of the memory concerns have been offloaded to the OS and the VM where one exists.

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the-grump 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn't that literally every modern OS, always, unless you tell it to act differently?

	▲	AdamN 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes - I didn't mean to imply it was only one of the OSes. Further up the comments people were talking about how memory efficiency is now more important but I was trying to make the point that with compression and virtual memory it still doesn't matter all that much even if memory is double the price.