3 ms·

Not sure the numbers make much sense... Main memory reference - 100ns Compress 1K bytes with Zippy - 3,000ns So it takes 30 main memory accesses to zi

Not sure the numbers make much sense... Main memory reference - 100ns Compress 1K bytes with Zippy - 3,000ns So it takes 30 main memory accesses to zip up 1K? Not likely.

foota 10y ago
If you have 32 byte cache lines and no hardware prefetch then yes.