On 2015-08-25 00:43, Justin wrote: >>> On 2015-08-24, at 22:32, Justin <shadow@darksideresearch.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I have often wondered, but have never pursued, the possibility of >>> compressing data on the processor in say a 1541 and then >>> decompressing it on the 64 to get some more throughput. >> >> That's what we've been doing for a long time. Only not "on-the-fly" >> ;-) And when I started working with DolphinDOS, I started to regret >> all the meticulous compressing I did to many of my files earlier... >> :-) > Yeah I should have been more clear, I meant on the fly. That was why > I had looked at LZ4 and gotten interested when I saw that 6502 > assembler implementation. I promptly forgot about it, but this thread > reminded me. Neither the behavior of the 1541 nor the rolling of a > kernal to do that is really within my domain, so it was just > curiosity on my part, not something I intended to try to do. The problem is that no reasonable compression (only a kind of suboptimal "charpacking", maybe) can be done in real time on the CPUs in question. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2015-08-24 23:00:06
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