>I've been using these techniques since 1996, and they still work more than
10 years later. 

I've been using them for a lot longer than that.


>The performance gain made sense then, and it makes sense now.

Does it with sub-5ms response?


>After all, I'm sure you are one of the supporters of the maxim "the best IO is 
>the one you don't do."

Yes. But.

>That's something compression can do for you.

It's too expensive in a write intensive environment.

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