Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

[Mr . Bad]

>>>>> "SR" == Stefan Reich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    >> This seems like a problem in search of a solution. The stuff
    >> that needs compressing is already compressed. The stuff that
    >> isn't already compressed, like HTML files and text files, is
    >> small enough that compressing it is going to take longer than
    >> sending over the wire raw.

    SR> Compressing takes longer than sending uncompressed data? You
    SR> can't be not serious!

I am not being not serious! I'm being serious. Sending a 2K file
uncompressed will take less time than compressing it to 1K and sending
that.

Feel free to write a sample program to prove me wrong.

~Mr. Bad

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