> 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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