Re:Pessimism about parallelism
by MaulingMonkey on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:45PM
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Even if you couldn't parallelize decompression (non-entropy encodings?) there's nothing stopping you from breaking data up into multiple streams and separately (de)compression those. For games, this might be decompressing different assets simultaneously.
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FWIW, my aim was to give an illustrative example of what I meant by a chain of dependencies, and your garden-variety gunzip foo.gz has one. You can certainly come up with compression schemes or situations where not everything has to be serial.