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From: rheiger@chvax.uucp (Eiger Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Compressed executables
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.123119.15448@chvax.uucp>
Date: 30 Jan 91 12:31:19 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.204849@IASTATE.EDU> <118868@uunet.UU.NET> <3977@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jan23.123808.22159@grep.co.uk> <4001@skye.ed.ac.uk> <5453@bwdls58.UUCP>
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In article <5453@bwdls58.UUCP> hwt@bwdlh490.BNR.CA (Henry Troup) writes:
>Of course, if you can implement compression in special hardware between the 
>disk and the CPU, you can do this with no impact on CPU performance.
>
I thought of the exact same thing. While we're at it, why not put
hardware compressing onto the drives? This could be implemented using
schemes that are used successfully in image processing systems. One of
the problems I can think of however is the need to be able to access raw
data directly on the disk. Comments? Experiences?

	Richard