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BLOSC already does this with software. http://blosc.org/ http://blosc.org/ The sales pitch is "faster than memcpy." Fetch data from RAM, decompress it in L1,2
by miohtama 8y ago
BLOSC already does this with software.
http://blosc.org/ http://blosc.org/
The sales pitch is "faster than memcpy." Fetch data from RAM, decompress it in L1,2,3 caches and run operations on the data. Some very nice benchmarks available.
- mrguyorama 8y agoI find it incredible how slow modern RAM and databuses are. A far cry from the early days where you could upgrade the CPU cache by inserting some memory chips on the other side of the board
- gameswithgo 8y agoram has gotten steadily faster since then. but cpus have gotten faster, faster.
- mhkool 8y agoRAM access time has not gotten much faster, only bandwidth increases.