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Faster Compression
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Summary
Our compression implementation (LZ, GLC, QUIC) are not optimized to current processors. There are speed gains to be had. Also revealed as a bottleneck while profiling.
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Owner
- Hans de Goede
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Current Status
- Targeted Release: Not set
- 0% complete
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Description
There are existing drop in oss libraries that implement this, as a first step try to use them and see if we get a speed bonus.
TODO - add specific tests and results here, as a baseline.
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See also
http://www.technofumbles.com/weblog/2011/04/22/survey-of-fast-compression-algorithms-part-1-2/
