> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Garreau, Alexandre <galex-...@galex-713.eu> wrote: > > Le 05/03/2018 à 14h54, Mark Adler a écrit : >> deflate has an inherent latency that accumulates enough data in order >> to efficiently emit each deflate block. You can deliberately flush >> (with zlib, not gzip), but if you do that too frequently, e.g. each >> line, then you will get lousy compression or even expansion. > > Even if the main repetition is being between the lines? like if 80% of > half the line, and 70% of the other half lines are the same? like in a > while loop with only ping and date? I thought to it as a very lazy way > of not having to remove all the redundant output caused by the usage of > ascii, the repetition of words or similar patterns occuring ever and > ever.
Alexandre, It has nothing to do with how much or how little or how often there is repetition. It has to do with the overhead of the header of a dynamic block that is required to describe the Huffman codes used therein. You need several thousand symbols in order to pay for the bits required for the header. Mark
