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   hazelnot :yell: (hazelnot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 03:13:03 JST hazelnot :yell:

   @ghost_bird yeah but they're telling me that somehow the decompression on the CPU would be faster than reading the uncompressed file and that goes against everything I know on the topic and sounds so wrong to me that it's genuinely making me uncomfortable

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 03:13:02 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @hazelnot @ghost_bird It all depends on where the bottleneck is. If you're reading from disk as fast as you can, but have spare CPU capacity, then storing things as compressed and decompressing them on the fly makes sense.

     Since CPUs have advanced so much as of late, but hard drive speeds haven't advanced as quickly, that's a pretty common case.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 03:15:13 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @hazelnot @ghost_bird The really fuck-y thing is that RAM can be slow enough compared to CPU capacity and fast enough compared to disk access that compressing RAM in place can sometimes make sense.