Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:28:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Ted Unangst <> | Subject | Re: memory compress tech... |
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > > > I think he said it best. There may be uses for memory-compression technology, > > but does that make the slow-down worthwhile? > > Please read the corresponding research papers by IBM on this > topic. It's all NOT ABOUT RAM size. It is all bout BUS BADWIDTH! > At least if you do it properly - namely in hardware... ;-)
maybe for compressing swap? you have to read less data off the disk, which is faster. and the processor is probably idling anyway, waiting on disk.
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