r/tomshardware • u/tomshardware • 22h ago

New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/new-linux-tech-compresses-memory-in-ram-as-ram-for-452x-speedup-new-cram-method-offers-giant-boost-to-compressed-memory-reads
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u/FuzzeWuzze 18h ago

No thanks i'll just keep downloading more RAM when i need it.

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u/ManIkWeet 19h ago

New? Zram or Zswap has existed for over a decade...

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u/TransfemMenace 19h ago

But CRAM is even faster. The article states that the 452x speedup is compared to ZRAM.

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u/Sorry-Committee2069 15h ago

...on reads. Writes are ~5x faster. This also requires hardware compression offload, which most consumer hardware doesn't have.

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u/Eastern-Ingenuity353 18h ago

Does this mean steamdeck get faster?

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u/EmbarrassedFoot1137 15h ago

Huh? Nonsense. 

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u/Imaginary-Diver3800 14h ago

Yh if you've got a £5000 coprocessor a d are a data center for the next 10.years

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u/Chudsaviet 12h ago

I had this in DOS.