@rachelplusplus
Yeah, I remember this from doing some i18n work, and the Wikipedia article appears to agree.
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John-Mark Gurney
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Wait hold on I just realized. -
Thinking about how it'd be possible to compress strings in the FreeBSD kernel.Thinking about how it'd be possible to compress strings in the FreeBSD kernel. There are lots of strings that are rarely used, and also, they would compress very well. They are usually ASCII and have lots of similarities (e.g. starting with "%s :", or all the printf format specifications).
The difficulty is how to make it happen and have the decompression happen transparently with minimal overhead and impact.