gzip compression (from file/gzip) followed by mime encoding (from net/base64) results in an average size reduction of 74%, on average, across 600 assignment submissions that were saved in Racket's "binary" format.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > Part of the need for this is the bug report system doesn't allow > attachments, which I have sometimes sorely missed. Of course, it isnt the > only usecase. > > On Jun 29, 2010 1:05 PM, "Robby Findler" <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: > > Some kind of compression could help, but at the moment the format is > designed so that if someone were to copy and paste the contents of a > file into an email window and send it to us, we could still use it > (wierd linebreaks and all) and even if it gets truncated there is some > hope of recovering some of the content of the file. There probably is > a way to do better, but these properties have proven useful in the > past. > > Robby > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarc...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 26, 2... _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
