On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:08:32PM -0700, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> Hey guys. I haven't been around for a while, so if this has already been
> discussed, I apologize. The major performance consideration with freenet
> is network lag. I think it would be beneficial to integrate zlib
> compression into the freenet protocols, just like in HTTP 1.1.
Actually, the major performance consideration is latency, which is
independent of data size.
> Specifically, I suggest adding an optional field named Compression to the
> DataFound message. Acceptable values for this field would initially be
> zlib and none, with none being the default if no Compression field is
> present. Then of course if zlib compression were specified, the data
> sections of following DataChunk messages would be zlib compressed. Other
> compression algorithms could be added in later versions.
Realize that this wont work because your trying to compress encrypted data
(documents). You'd have to apply the compression at insert time, which
would only benefit some content (most content in Freenet is already
compressed: images, mp3s, videos, archives).
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