That sounds good in principle, but may have the same issues as the wish to relive your life again. While being able to have the energy and make other choices is a benefit, you also have to redo the bad stuff too, and in this case a free memory means you have to start over with what you knew. I guess that part might be a bonus depending on your situation, but I’d have to lose experiences and knowledge that make me… me.
Fitting for this community. What does make an individual if not the memories they have?
I meant it more like short term worries than long term memories. Running programs vs. saved files.
Everything that makes me who I am is in my saved files, that should all be safe through a shut down.
But the little running program fragments, all those little worries that never fully go away but don’t actually need to be taking resources to process, that’s all in that memory cache. Wipe that and the whole system is more efficient for a while, until they build up again.
That sounds good in principle, but may have the same issues as the wish to relive your life again. While being able to have the energy and make other choices is a benefit, you also have to redo the bad stuff too, and in this case a free memory means you have to start over with what you knew. I guess that part might be a bonus depending on your situation, but I’d have to lose experiences and knowledge that make me… me.
Fitting for this community. What does make an individual if not the memories they have?
I meant it more like short term worries than long term memories. Running programs vs. saved files.
Everything that makes me who I am is in my saved files, that should all be safe through a shut down.
But the little running program fragments, all those little worries that never fully go away but don’t actually need to be taking resources to process, that’s all in that memory cache. Wipe that and the whole system is more efficient for a while, until they build up again.
My luck I’d restart and get a crash error in BIOS. “Boot device not found.”