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New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup — new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

It's not using the same hardware, this seems to use a special compression chip.

To me this feels more like the benefits of a CPU or GPU upgrade. Things run faster, but not due to software improvements. When people talk about things getting optimized due to the high RAM prices, I think most people are referring to software improvements.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    There is no mention of any extra hardware here though. The article even suggests this to benefit existing hardware like the steam deck.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    In another comment, I posted a link to the CRAM presentation that mentioned a chip.

    This article also mentions some hardware:

    Because CRAM is stored in RAM and treated as RAM, with full cacheline/byte access, it can be accessed in a read-only fashion with little delay; just the cost of hardware-offloaded compression.

    I don't think it would say that if they meant the CPU was doing the compression.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Ah I see. It might not be a requirement though. In the case that the numbers are given with hardware offloaded compression it might just be slower when running on CPU. But I guess time will tell.

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