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New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup — new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] equivocal@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

If you're already on a distro that uses zram/zswap in lieu of disk swap, this sounds like a vast improvement over them by just removing the overhead of treating those things like a disk swap.

Since I'm on Fedora, I'm looking forward to this rolling out.

this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2026
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