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> have an OS try to muck about with encodings Hardware encode/decode often requires DMA capabilities. There are many optimizations that kernel mode can bring.

• pdonis 10y ago
  > Hardware encode/decode Of text?
  • braveo 10y ago
    but is it webscale?
• john_reel 10y ago
  x86 has string instructions that do not require DMA. Nobody needs to hardware accelerate string decoding and encoding though...