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		gumby on May 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: LZ4 was not added as an optional compresso... > Memory usage isn't that big of a concern anymore, not when phones ship with 1 or more GB of memory regularly. Memory access costs power and time (which = power too).

DiabloD3 on May 7, 2015 [–]

Yes it does, but does it cost more than the CPU power used by gzip vs the memory access cost of lz4? I suspect the CPU cost is more by at least a magnitude (although I can't measure it, but I bet Google has frameworks for Android to).

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