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memory compression allowed me to to allocate and store 20GB of genomics data in memory on my old 16GB MBP. ZRAM in Linux allowed me to do the same.

• amelius 5y ago
  You used the ASCII encoding for it, I presume? That's trivial to compress to 2/8 = 25%, or 5GB in your case.
  • gowld 5y ago
    if it's one byte per 3-base codon, that's 6/8 compression 15GB/20GB