Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 23 Feb 2003 21:35:13 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 20:21, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > they load faster too (which is important - you can make your CPU have > > big caches, but _nothing_ saves you from the cold-cache costs). > > Next step: hardware gzip ?
gzip doesn't work because its not unpackable from an arbitary point. x86 in many ways is compressed, with common codes carefully bitpacked. A horrible cisc design constraint for size has come full circle and turned into a very nice memory/cache optimisation
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