Re:Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
by myself248 on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:05PM
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How specific are those "gzip instructions", though? Are there newer algorithms that could benefit from some of the same acceleration primitives, even if they do higher-level things differently?
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They're not instructions; it's a dedicated hardware unit. Most of the area appears to be devoted to finding matches so it should be possible to add other LZ-style algorithms without much additional area.