1. A method of compressing and decompressing information in a heterogeneous multi-core processor, the method comprising: processing information by a first processor core exhibiting a first architecture, the first processor core including a first data path exhibiting a first data width; processing information by a second processor core exhibiting a second architecture, the first processor core and the second processor core being in the same heterogeneous multi-core processor, the second processor core including a second data path, the second data path exhibiting a second data width that is wider than the width of the first data path; compressing, by the second processor core, information to be sent by the heterogeneous multi-core processor to a system memory for storage therein as compressed information; decompressing, by the second processor core, compressed information received from the system memory for use as uncompressed information by the heterogeneous processor, the second processor core being dedicated to compressing and decompressing operations; storing, by the heterogeneous multi-core processor, both compressed information and uncompressed information in the system memory, the system memory including a compressed memory portion that stores the compressed information and an uncompressed memory portion that stores the uncompressed information, the system memory acting as a shared memory for both the compressed information and the uncompressed information, the system memory including a movable boundary between the compressed memory portion and the uncompressed memory portion, the movable boundary enabling changing of the ratio of the amount of compressed information in the compressed memory portion to the amount of uncompressed information in the uncompressed memory portion; receiving, by the second processor core, a request to decompress compressed information stored in the compressed memory portion; testing to determine if memory space is available in the uncompressed memory portion to store resultant decompressed information generated by performing the request to decompress; compressing, by the second processor core, uncompressed information in the uncompressed memory portion to provide resultant compressed information, transferring the resultant compressed information to the compressed memory portion for storage if the testing step determines that sufficient memory space is not available in the uncompressed memory portion for the resultant decompressed information; performing, by the second processor core, the request to decompress to generate the resultant decompressed information; and storing the resultant decompressed information in the uncompressed memory portion.