Comparing it to memcpy is idiotic.
No it’s not. The pace of improvement of CPU compute speed is far greater than that of DRAM throughput. And in fact compression algorithms geared towards speed aims to outperform memcpy (on suitable machines).
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No it’s not. The pace of improvement of CPU compute speed is far greater than that of DRAM throughput. And in fact compression algorithms geared towards speed aims to outperform memcpy (on suitable machines).