CRAM was conceptualized by Gregory Price and his team at Meta.
Implemented on Linux because that’s where it works, but closed source, so they’ll use it on their own hardware alone? I guess this is just an interesting thing, but nothing anyone will benefit from but Zuckerberg, since he owns it.
Where did you see this will be closed source? I can’t find any reference.
or more accurately lets assume meta doesn’t share it… doesn’t it just prove the possibility? Opening the door for a similar tech to be made open source?
If I remember correctly, isn’t meta the creator of several significant open source software projects, including zstd?
If you were like me and jumped straight past the headline to hoping this would somehow magically expand your RAM in these times of darkness… it won’t.
Unless I’m reading wrong this is essentially a program from Meta engineers designed to replace zram and zswap and make them faster. It will not give you more free memory - in fact, this uses RAM instead of hard disk swap space so is most likely going to utilize additional ram.
Sigh.
No, it compresses data in RAM, so whatever you have in ram takes up less space there.
Personally I just download more RAM whenever I need it.
“Cram” is such a funny acronym for this
