[haiku-development] Re: Package manager
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:12:22 +0200 CEST
Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > That depends on the decompression algorithm, but I guess the
> > interesting
> > ones are pretty fast anyway. IIRC for Reiser 4 using block
> > compression
> > was planned, since compressing/decompressing was considered to be
> > significantly faster than having to write/read the saved data to/
> > from
> > disk.
> It maybe faster in direct comparison, but that also means the CPU has
> less
> time to do other things. Usually, caching would hide much of the
> delay when
> accessing disks. And with good SSDs, the speed may be in favor of the
> non-compressed FS again.
That's why you have so many cores doing nothing but idle around ;-)
Bye,
Axel.
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