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Compression could potentially help bandwidth, but it isn't going to do anything for memory latency, which is the actual problem. That being said, if compression
by BubRoss 7y ago
Compression could potentially help bandwidth, but it isn't going to do anything for memory latency, which is the actual problem. That being said, if compression is part of a CPU cache it could indirectly help, but then I'm not sure how that is going to be done on 'objects' (whatever their definition is).