Re: Compressed Disks

"commanonce" <philp-3Y/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "somitcw" <somitcw@e...> wrote:
>     For reading compressed data, unless you
>  are short on CPU cycles, I believe that it
>  is faster to do less I/O.  Hercules is not
>  an exception.  Flex would not only not be
>  an exception, but any MIPS limits imposed
>  by a zOS license might leave extra Intel
>  CPU cycles for other work?

I'm not sure (Peter might comment) but I think most Flex-ES systems 
are dual processor with one processor already dedicated to support 
functions like I/O - so I doubt the other (emulating) processor would 
see any difference.

As I said before, I don't think space saving via compression is a 
good strategic route, but it's up to you: 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/63/27961.html

If someone's going to code it for nothing, all well and good - but it 
has to be supported after that.



------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/JjlUgA/vN2EAA/kG8FAA/dpFolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
hercules-advocacy-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org

 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.