Thread: [Under consideration] Remove 256MB limitation of the rootfs partition in the N900
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-09 , 09:43
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Originally Posted by jcompagner View Post
i am also wondering about this. even if it is fast how much cpu usage (and battery) is lost again by the compressing/decompressing?
we have a fast cpu but that fast that we really dont notice that? if it was a dual core i guess it would be better but now we have to wait for decomprssing.
Generally you come out about even on these things - you're losing time & power compressing/decompressing but gaining by reading/writing less data. The compression algorithm is chosen to balance the compression ratio & compression/decompression times.