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In article <dillon.0mmg@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>In article <15175@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
>>In article <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>>    Sounds like one huge bandaid to me.... compressed????  Are they out of
>>>    their mind?  It's *already* too slow!
>>
>>Compare the speed of the '040 in compressing to the speed of a typical hard
>>disk.
[...]
>    So we are going from maybe 5% processor overhead to 30% procesor
>    overhead per page (total guesses on my part).
>
>    That is NOT acceptable!  NeXT should *FIX* the stupid paging problem,
>    not add a cold compress (:-)) to an open sore!

Uh, I *REALLY* Don't think compress=lzw/packbits/etc.  That would be totally
retarded, not to mention totally unuseable on an '030 and damn near it on an
'040.  I would gather compressed = compacted in that the holes in the swapfile
are reused more wisely and the paging system tries to keep the swapfile
to a minimum ... 

This growing rumor is totally unfounded and technically silly IMNSHO.

la la la,
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