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Btrfs, the file system I use, utilizes zstd for transparent compression. That's using a lot of CPU all the time on laptop. So more efficient compressing is grea
by sanqui 3y ago
Btrfs, the file system I use, utilizes zstd for transparent compression. That's using a lot of CPU all the time on laptop. So more efficient compressing is great news! Is this for future CPUs?
- pgtan 3y agoWell, POWER9 and later CPUs have builtin hardware compression using the 8-4-2 algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/842_(compression_algorithm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/842_(compression_algorithm) https://github.com/plauth/lib842 https://github.com/plauth/lib842