Comment Comment by erk__ They could be using hardware compression which can be orders of magnitude faster than doing it on the CPU.Hardware compression is sadly not widely available, I think the only consumer product I know with it is the PlayStation 5.The mainframes from IBM have had hardware zlib since Z14 iirc and in my small tests it is very fast compared to the CPU implementation parent erk__ 4 years ago
Hardware compression is sadly not widely available, I think the only consumer product I know with it is the PlayStation 5.
The mainframes from IBM have had hardware zlib since Z14 iirc and in my small tests it is very fast compared to the CPU implementation