[–] exceptione 22d ago ↗ Link to slides at the bottom. Impressive read-speed, roughly operates at the same speed as native DRAM. Orders faster than zstd. See also:- https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM- https://lwn.net/Articles/1059885/
[–] daly 22d ago ↗ This idea goes all the way back to the 1970s. There was a program that compressed your 8k ram to "double" the space. The bytes were uncompressed on the fly.
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