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None are so blind as those who will not see.I don't consider that a leak. I'd consider it a leak if Finder never gave that memory back when something else needed to use it. If memory filled up, and then when there was a demand for memory, and the Mac gave an "out of memory" error and couldn't proceed, I'd consider that a leak.
Entirely different thing. And TRIM seems to be no longer used in Apple Silicon as there is no evidence of it anywhere in the system description for internal storage.SSD's do exactly as you describe too. You trash something on your drive, and the registers aren't instantly erased. They are only marked as "available." If you have TRIM enabled, when there is a quiet period TRIM will go and do garbage collection on those registers. If you don't have TRIM enabled, the data will stay put until you go to write something else, and then they will be erased.
Not just Howard Oakley, but every one of those articles have lots of comments from others experiencing the same thing.The bottom line is that no one except for techie curmudgeons (maybe only one; Hoakley) are complaining. Users aren't being inconvenienced. In fact, most of the reviewers have been saying that Apple Silicon is supremely light on RAM use:
And here is just the first page of a search with "Mac Finder memory leak" as the search terms.
You can see folks complaining about it on Reddit, macrumors, apple, 9to5mac, techarp, etc, etc, etc.
But hey, what do I know? I have only been in computing from the 1970's before Apple even existed...
I'm done. Bellieve what you want.