Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:16:48 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file |
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On 20 Feb 1998, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The only way I can see to make it successful is: > 1 - compress fast > 2 - compress a lot > 3 - beware of mapping between incore addresses and compressed addresses.
Linux does not swap 'incore' addresses, so 3) is a non-issue.
> All in all, unrealizable within Unix, but probably doable in a > (non-conservatively) GC'd world (since the GC already knows what is a > pointer and what is not and is able to move objects at will). LISP > machines, Smalltalk machines, or JavaOS would probably be good systems > to try it on.
Maybe unrealizable within Unix and NT, but not within Linux ;)
-- mingo
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