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New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50% (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 38 points 3 weeks ago

This is for LZ4, I guess most people use Zstd. Will be interesting to see if this becomes competitive now.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 15 points 3 weeks ago

If lz4 was already the king (lzo on btrfs) on performance, this would make it what?

That sweet almost no cpu usage with gbs/s decompression is amazing.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

by over 50%

Starting to get comfy flashbacks to the times of RAM extenders, again.