*g* I should stop never avoiding not reading my own postings before I hit
send...
<peace offering>It depends a lot on the bandwidth I'd say.</peace offering>
There's a reason why all modern modem protocols contain compression after
all.
-Stefan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr.Bad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet
> >>>>> "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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