I found the paper about this compression scheme here. It has an interesting analysis of performance improvements, as well as an explanation of how it's actually implemented.
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In the paper they imply that cache compression adds hardware complexity. But it's not clear to me whom exactly performs the compression and decompression. Is it the processor, or a specialized harware device?
I found the paper about this compression scheme here. It has an interesting analysis of performance improvements, as well as an explanation of how it's actually implemented.
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In the paper they imply that cache compression adds hardware complexity. But it's not clear to me whom exactly performs the compression and decompression. Is it the processor, or a specialized harware device?
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