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Actually the zip algorithm is a perfect candidate for dedicated silicon of a dedicated instruction.

I read about a chip that had that feature yesterday but I can’t find the link unfortunately.



this is something that's looking at getting moved to storage controllers on motherboards, ex: PS5/Xbox consoles so that compressed data can be streamed directly to the GPU. Hopefully we'll start to get this type of tech after it's been proven in the console space.


Intel QAT supports gzip compression.




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