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[yoshi314]

smaller (compressed) kernel with fast unpack speed = faster boot. zstd is designed to decompress quickly, pretty much on par with gzip. it actually seems...

[yoshi314]

if they offer paid support - they might achieve something. for many companies this is a significant aspect of vendor choice. and this is also why redhat...

[yoshi314]

how is fixing an existing issue on ci env a premature optimization?...

[yoshi314]

i wonder how much ram those hosts have, because it might make a difference.

savings on 512GB machine are more or less negligible. on 16GB...

[yoshi314]

pretty sure it's already bouncing around their heads, with regard to their non-desktop clients. but it depends on how the actual users of this tech react....

[yoshi314]

so basically, nothing so far.but maybe it is for the best to plan before dropping lots of code, as they are doing here....

[yoshi314]

i am likely too dumb for this article, but adding some explanations would not hurt....

[yoshi314]

that nvidia opensource promise is becoming as elusive as the year of the linux desktop.