If that page contains content that requires significant memory, such as high resolution graphics, more memory and more time will be required to store that in the main memory of your computer.

If you look at what’s actually being used on your computer or portable device, only a small percentage of the application code loaded into the main memory is usually active.

After studying most of its servers for more than two years, Google finds memory failures are much more common than expected, and debunks some other myths, too.

Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller. But the chips themselves are as big as ever, so data moving around the chip, and between chips and main memory, has to ...

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