1. A method for managing compression of pages of memory in a system comprising physical memory, wherein the physical memory comprises system memory, the method comprising: receiving a system memory access; locating a page translation entry for the system memory access in a page translation table; determining if a page in the physical memory and referenced by the page translation entry is compressed or uncompressed; if said determining indicates the page is compressed: decompressing the compressed page to produce a decompressed page; writing the decompressed page to the physical memory; and providing a first physical memory address of the decompressed page in the physical memory to fulfill the system memory access.