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#78
Originally Posted by egoshin View Post
It would have a big impact on battery life (1) because CPU usage, and it decreases an available RAM space which is very valuable for N900 Maemo (2). So, it would decrease N900 performance.
Not necessarily. Given how expensive MMC access operations are, gzipping most pages to, let us say, 16MB of RAM may well prove to be faster than pushing the same pages to the MMC.