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Paul Wilson worked on compressed paging at the turn of the century [1] and tried to address this by introducing specialized compression algorithms for different kinds of pages (e.g., x86 instructions, pointer-filled data structures). Interesting stuff, but I don't think I've ever seen it commercialized, except in Newton OS where we used compressed code pages in binaries (read-only, not swap).

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.26.7...




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