Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 23:28:57 08/06/01
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If the compression subject is fairly regular, a simple (i.e. few computations) compression/decompression will give a big compression ratio. And in many cases its faster to access compressed data than uncompressed because of the speed of the storage medium is much slower than ram. There was an experimental system called Juice that stored a compressed representation of a program and loaded the compressed file and managed to compile and optimize the program faster than the system could load the precompiled native program. Hard disks are really slow compared with most other computer subsystems. So in short, compression/decompression might even make sense in a speed perspective (under the right circumstances).
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