[CHiPPS] Questions on Blis

[Sebastian Nowozin]

Hello Alessandro,

Alessandro Tiberi wrote:

> Do you thing that adding a "compressing" wrapper  to the node
> description would help? I was thinking of something like zipping the
> description of not used nodes before storing them... if this makes any
> sense. Thank you again!

It can make sense when using a fast compression/decompression method.
For example, lzop (http://www.lzop.org/) has this goal and states this
at their page as:

"On modern systems, when making backups of terrabyte of data, lzop is
usually IO-bound and not CPU-bound, which means that you can both
decrease storage requirements and effectively reduce backup time by
quite an amount."

Effectively, if you can compress faster than the disk I/O, then
compression reduces the overall time required.

Sebastian