Angelouscuitry opened this issue on Feb 14, 2007 · 20 posts
pjz99 posted Thu, 15 February 2007 at 7:42 AM
That company uses some funny terms - "defragment" and "compress" aren't really applicable, you're right. Here's a segment from their FAQ:
By contrast, in Global Memory Compression FreeRAM XP Pro asks each of your programs how much memory they are currently taking up but don't really need. Then, this "unneeded" memory is released, instantly--there's no allocation process to wait for, no writing of data to the disk or a swap file, and best of all, no slowing down of your system.
Sounds like what it does is the same thing that minimizing your app will do (force it to shed unneeded memory that it's claimed).