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  • Yeah, OP should probably add “Rust-based” or specific Epoch to avoid confusion.

    like 5 years or more

    They’re really good & extremely dedicated devs with lots of experience working on it, so I think that’s a little bit of an underestimation, I think it’s within the possibly of getting there within 5 years, maybe not exactly 1:1 ofc. However, they’ve really put in a lot of thought into base of the project, and in my experience having a strong well designed base can propell future development forward much faster than initial estimates. Even now, they’ve been smashing mile stones much faster than expected and if they keep their current trajectory at a steady rate I believe it’s possible the meet some level of parody within a 5 year goal. Ofc, anything can happen so only time will tell. Also, considering the fact that they’re not having to deal with the X11 tech debt…

















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    Zram offers way more flexibility and versatility compared to ImDisk.
    Zram can be used for swap space or as a general-purpose RAM disk. Unlike a traditional RAM drive, Zram can compress data using a nice hand full of algorithms, notably Zstd; allowing it to store more information within the same RAM capacity leading to faster I/O and efficient memory usage with minimal CPU usage; & LZO-RLE; offering the fastest compression and decompression speeds leading to faster data swapping between compressed and uncompressed states, potentially improving overall system performance. Also, ImDisk afaik only offers NTFS compression for RAM drives which is… well… pretty damn slow for this particular use comparatively.
    Additionally, Zram persistence can be configured with writeback devices. ImDisk typically doesn’t offer persistence.
    ramdrive.sys isn’t even worth talking about, it never had any kind of compression let alone anything else I mentioned previously.