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In 2012 some versions of the POWER7+ chip included data compression support for Virtual Memory Compression.<ref name="IBM-POWER7+"/> In December 2012 the [[zswap]] project was announced and later added to the [[Linux Kernel]].
 
In June 2013, Apple announced that it will include virtual memory compression in [[OS X Mavericks]].
On multi-core, multithreaded CPUs, some benchmarks show performance improvements of over 50% in some circumstances.<ref name="zswap-bench"/><ref name="ZRAM-BENCH"/>