Draft talk:WKdm

References

Most of the references that use “{{cite web…}}” should instead be changed to “{{cite journal…}}” as the references depend on specific information on specific pages. I’ll have to get around to converting these. Jdbtwo (talk) 19:02, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

And, done Jdbtwo (talk) 16:02, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Sources

@MicrobiologyMarcus: I've added more sources and more inline citations to sources that are relevant to parts of the material that had previously only been cited elsewhere in the draft article.

As for sources in general, there are many more to choose from that I haven't added ( see eg. a Google search for '"wkdm" memory compression' ), but, I don't know which of these is suitable for Wikipedia. Furthermore, there are at least a dozen or more additional journal articles that reference WKdm but as far as I can tell they're behind paywalls.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdbtwo (talk • contribs) 09:11, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Concerning certain source for "Algorithms" section

I have only one inline citation for Matthew Simpson et al.'s paper that is in the "Algorithm" section ( as opposed to the citations in the rest of the article), in the "Compression" sub-section, in the second paragraph near the beginning. The reason for this is that Simpson et al.'s paper doesn't mention "tags" or "segments" and only provides a very general overview of the algorithm, which tends more towards "motivation" than a technical explanation.

I *could* add more citations to the aforementioned source to the "Algorithm" section, although I don't know if it would be appropriate.

Any suggestions? Jdbtwo (talk) 15:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Proprietary apple hardware implementation of WKdm

It seems there may be a proprietary hardware implementation of the WKdm algorithm in Apple's latest ARM-based processors. Unfortunately, the instructions involved -- "wkdmd" and "wkdmc" -- and any details about these instructions have been stripped from Apple's opensource releases. All I could really find were three sources : [1] , [2] and [3] .

Due to the instructions currently being undocumented, and the lack of reliable sources, I can't include information about this in the article.

Hopefully Apple will choose to document the aforementioned instructions at which point I can include information about the undocumented hardware implementation in the article unless someone can come up with several *reliable* sources now, but I doubt that will happen due to my extensive searches yielding no additional sources other than the unreliable sources I've already mentioned. Jdbtwo (talk) 15:33, 7 March 2024 (UTC)