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There was a window there where HDD performance was marginal enough that compressing data helped fetch it from disk faster since CPU decompression was quicker th
by astrodust 10y ago
There was a window there where HDD performance was marginal enough that compressing data helped fetch it from disk faster since CPU decompression was quicker than waiting for the data to be fetched at full-size, especially on things like text where 10:1 compression isn't hard.
Now we're living with SSDs that can do 2GB/s and no CPU can decompress that quickly.
- mschuster91 10y ago> Now we're living with SSDs that can do 2GB/s and no CPU can decompress that quickly. I'd totally buy a machine with a state-of-the-art CPU paired with one or two FPGAs that can be programmed as accelerators for crypto, compression, etc.
- astrodust 10y agoIntel's working on bundling FGPA with its Xeon systems, so maybe that will happen, but it's probably better addressed with a hardware decoder like is done for H.264.