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New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

danny00

Comments (17)

  • Kevin_Flynn
    Ram Doubler, for Mac and Win 3.x, 1996https://winworldpc.com/product/connectix-ram-double/windows-...Nice to see its back, with better performance.History repeated, with refinement.
  • eglintondust
    So can I finally download more RAM?
  • cyberclimb
    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 findhttps://www.youtube.com/@LinuxPlumbersConferencenot sure where it falls in the schedule here either https://lpc.events/event/20/timetable/#all
  • vfosnar
  • cwillu
    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.
  • madduci
    Finally we can run frontier models locally