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SubjectRe: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file
>Can't optimize this by compressing on a per page basis?  I'm not overly
>familiar with the theory, but it seems that there is less to compress
>(yeah, the compression isn't as good) and less for the CPU to worry about.
>
>Hmmm.... If only there was intellegent hardware that could do this for
>us...

I seem to remember reading something about IBM looking into this
a few years ago -- dedicated logic to compress stuff going across
the bus. Can't remember the reference though.

Regards
Emil

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