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Meta Develops Compressed RAM for Linux
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Meta engineer Gregory Price presented Compressed RAM at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague. This hardware-offloaded compression offers near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds for read-only data. Writes are 5.4x faster than ZRAM in the worst tested case of 20% writes, though performance drops due to paging faults.
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