On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:29:14AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:05:18AM -0700, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> > looking at the code, the simplest way to implement zlib compression is to
> > change line 39 of Freenet/client/Document.java to read:
> >
> > this.data = new GZIPInputStream(source);
> >
> > (you'd also have to add import java.util.zip.* near the top to get it to
> > compile)
>
> I really don't think this is a good idea, given that the vast majority
> of data on Freenet will already be compressed (jpg, mpeg, mp3, etc), and
> thus trying to gzip them will be a waste of time and processing
> resources. The only things that might benefit from compression like
> this are HTML and TXT files, which make up an extremely small proportion
> of documents in Freenet. Allowing these to be compressed would be a bad
> idea as it would make any content which used this compression scheme
> unreadable on older versions of the client.
It is worth it, because smaller files work better on freenet. It shouldn't be
required, for obvious reasons. It's a big gain on HTTP, but freenet's main
issue is latency as regards performance. But as regards persistence, overall
efficiency, etc, it may be a reasonable gain. Given that gzip is cheap and
standard, it makes sense.
>
> It isn't worth it,
>
> Ian.
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