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DirectStorage for Windows is an API that allows game developers to unlock the full potential of high speed NVMe drives for loading game assets.
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2022-06-01 · latest 2026-06-03
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…as one would like, in comparison to the onboard memory. https://docs.nvidia.com/gpudirect-storage/ https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/tree/main
comment by strictnein · 2026-06-03 · in Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux -
…causes the OS to place its files differently on disk? Also in the official DirectStorage docs ( https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/blob/main/Docs/De... ) it says this: > Don't worry about 4-KiB alignment restrictions > * Win32 has…
comment by jmillikin · 2026-01-21 · in Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga -
…saving even more CPU. This demo benchmark shows DEFLATE going from 1 GB/s on CPU to 7 GBs/ on GPU https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/tree/main/Samples...
comment by pizza · 2024-09-07 · in Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake? -
…not deflate. The single stream is designed to use the parallelism of a GPU. It is described here: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/blob/main/GDeflat... The GPU decompression benchmark I linked earlier allows you to specify a…
comment by mgerdts · 2023-05-12 · in Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines -
…[3]. It is Apache-2 licensed. 1. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-load-times-fo... 2. https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/tree/main/Samples... 3. https://github.com/microsoft/DirectStorage/blob/main/GDeflat...…
comment by mgerdts · 2023-05-12 · in Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines