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		mycall on Nov 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minoca OS: A new open source operating system > have an OS try to muck about with encodings Hardware encode/decode often requires DMA capabilities. There are many optimizations that kernel mode can bring.

john_reel on Nov 1, 2016 | [–]

x86 has string instructions that do not require DMA. Nobody needs to hardware accelerate string decoding and encoding though...

pdonis on Nov 1, 2016 | [–]

> Hardware encode/decode

Of text?

braveo on Nov 2, 2016 | [–]

but is it webscale?

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