Comment by guiriduro

With RAM sizes not keeping up with Moore's Law, it would make sense to have superfast compression as a pervasive, transparent and Hardware-accelerated feature of a modern OS. SIMD provides hw acceleration to some extent, and is clearly well used by the compression algos, its time that compression becomes 'just part of the furniture' as we're now at the stage where compression is fast enough that it can couple with reduced latency (smaller compressed blocks to load into caches reduces total memory latency) to deliver multiplicative speedups.