alt Hacker NewsNew CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads
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the recording of the presentation has got to be on this YT channel but I only scrubbed through 2 videos (8h each) and it's not easy to find
https://www.youtube.com/@LinuxPlumbersConference
not sure where it falls in the schedule here either https://lpc.events/event/20/timetable/#all
The article appears to misunderstand the point of the project, and mostly just describes what zswap already does (writing compressed pages back into ram), rather than talking about cram's hardware-offloaded compression that allows cacheline-level access rather than page-level. (And they appear to be aware that they don't really understand it: “My explanation of CRAM might not be completely correct”)
The phoronix article is better, and I say that as someone who usually detests the quality of phoronix's technical writing.
Ram Doubler, for Mac and Win 3.x, 1996
https://winworldpc.com/product/connectix-ram-double/windows-...
Nice to see its back, with better performance.
History repeated, with refinement.