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What slows it down!?
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<blockquote data-quote="ToddG" data-source="post: 298054" data-attributes="member: 23228"><p>One very important thing to remember is that virtual memory is <strong>much</strong> slower than real RAM memory. Your hard drive cannot communicate with your processor anywhere near as fast as the RAM. So any time you are relying on virtual memory, your computer is going to slow down.</p><p></p><p>This is especially true if you are also trying to access data from the drive at the same time. Time spent swapping "memory" information from the hard drive is time that it <em>cannot</em> be reading data (eg, loading your photograph).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ToddG, post: 298054, member: 23228"] One very important thing to remember is that virtual memory is [b]much[/b] slower than real RAM memory. Your hard drive cannot communicate with your processor anywhere near as fast as the RAM. So any time you are relying on virtual memory, your computer is going to slow down. This is especially true if you are also trying to access data from the drive at the same time. Time spent swapping "memory" information from the hard drive is time that it [i]cannot[/i] be reading data (eg, loading your photograph). [/QUOTE]
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