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Add libnxz #119

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@stefanrua stefanrua force-pushed the libnxz branch 2 times, most recently from 90ee987 to c8a7bbe Compare August 18, 2022 10:13
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Can you describe the characteristics and usage scenarios of this compression algorithm in detail?
And introduce that the warehouse you obtained is the official warehouse address.

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stefanrua commented Aug 19, 2022

This is a zlib-compatible library that makes use of IBM's hardware accelerator for gzip, NX, which is available on their POWER9 chips.

  • Characteristics: fast, good compression (see figure).
  • Usage scenarios: you have too much money or you happen to have a POWER9 machine, and you want to compress things.

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These results are from compressing a 100 MB binary blob.

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by warehouse, but I'll interpret it as "repository". The address that the code is from, https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip, is the address cited in IBM's original paper about the compressor: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ISCA45697.2020.00012.

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