Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:25:26 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5 |
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Hi!
> > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:28, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > If you add to that the possibility of being able to save more > > > in less space if you have compression, would it be useful ? > > > > I'm not sure that it would because we don't know how much compression > > we're going to get ahead of time, so we don't know how many extra pages > > The algorithm could be adjusted to deal with that, however ... > > > we can save. The compression/decompression also takes extra time and > > puts more drain on a potentially low battery. > > .. I didn't think about the battery drain - valid point !
Actually I don't quiet think so. gzip compression is pretty cheap, and if it makes you suspend faster and with less disk writes...
But I think it adds unneccessary complexity.
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