Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down

Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by astrodust on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:31PM (#12847396)

There was a window there where HDD performance was marginal enough that compressing data helped fetch it from disk faster since CPU decompression was quicker than waiting for the data to be fetched at full-size, especially on things like text where 10:1 compression isn't hard.

Now we're living with SSDs that can do 2GB/s and no CPU can decompress that quickly.

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Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by mschuster91 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:04PM (#12849605)

> Now we're living with SSDs that can do 2GB/s and no CPU can decompress that quickly.

I'd totally buy a machine with a state-of-the-art CPU paired with one or two FPGAs that can be programmed as accelerators for crypto, compression, etc.

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Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by astrodust on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:47AM (#12852920)

Intel's working on bundling FGPA with its Xeon systems, so maybe that will happen, but it's probably better addressed with a hardware decoder like is done for H.264.

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