overview zlib efficiency?
Sven Hartge
sven at svenhartge.de
Tue Mar 15 19:45:40 UTC 2016
Robert L Mathews <lists at tigertech.com> wrote:
> Also keep in mind that even if it does increase CPU usage, it reduces
> disk usage. This is probably an excellent tradeoff for most people,
> since most servers are limited by disk throughput/latency more than
> CPU power.
IOPS are harder to scale (meaning: cost more to scale) than CPU power.
And gzip (or lz4 of implemented someday) (or even blosc:
http://www.blosc.org/. They claim "Designed to transmit data to the
processor cache faster than a memcpy() OS call.") is effectively free
with todays CPUs.
Grüße,
Sven.
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