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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