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MAC 8GB RAM vs 16GB RAM

I have 8GB RAM memory on a Mac.  How can I tell if upgrading to 16GB RAM would help? In terms of, for example, how often does an appl need more than 8GB and start disk-swapping, slowing me down a bit? What type of applications are happier with 16GB RAM?
(I have 3 Macs, one with 4GM RAM, 1 with 8GB RAM, and one with 16GB RAM. When I look at Activity Monitor, they all seem to use less than what is installed of course)
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Yes on the Swap Space ... Activ Monitor says:
Phy Mem 8.00 GB
Mem Used 6.55 GB
Cached Files 1.41 GB
Swap Used: 176.8 MB  (Yesterday, the first day I opened the box on this new mac, Swap said approx 30 MB at the end of the day)

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App Mem 3.19 GB
Wired Mem 1.62 GB
Compressed: 1.73 GB (is this not good? takes time to compress/uncompress, etc?)
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