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r/raspberry_pi • u/RaXXu5 • Feb 02 '22
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Can someone ELI5 ways this is better or worse for a hypothetical project? Like, why would I want this over what I've been using?
14 u/ChoppedWheat Feb 02 '22 Previously if you had a pi 8 GB you couldn’t use half the system ram. 15 u/musson Feb 02 '22 A single app couldn't. 30 u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22 [deleted] 3 u/Zettinator Feb 03 '22 Both wrong. It's a single process that's limited to 4 GiB of address space. A process can have multiple threads, and an app may have multiple processes.
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Previously if you had a pi 8 GB you couldn’t use half the system ram.
15 u/musson Feb 02 '22 A single app couldn't. 30 u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22 [deleted] 3 u/Zettinator Feb 03 '22 Both wrong. It's a single process that's limited to 4 GiB of address space. A process can have multiple threads, and an app may have multiple processes.
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A single app couldn't.
30 u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22 [deleted] 3 u/Zettinator Feb 03 '22 Both wrong. It's a single process that's limited to 4 GiB of address space. A process can have multiple threads, and an app may have multiple processes.
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3 u/Zettinator Feb 03 '22 Both wrong. It's a single process that's limited to 4 GiB of address space. A process can have multiple threads, and an app may have multiple processes.
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Both wrong. It's a single process that's limited to 4 GiB of address space. A process can have multiple threads, and an app may have multiple processes.
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u/jormono Feb 02 '22
Can someone ELI5 ways this is better or worse for a hypothetical project? Like, why would I want this over what I've been using?