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Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Usama Arif found that with the three patches to just probe BMI2 CPU support only once, it yield a 71% reduction in decompression time and a 18% reduction in compression time for a crypto_acomp benchmark.

Wow