On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:38:00AM -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote: > The node will not be compressing data for people; it's definitely > better to have clients that support compressed keys, but the node > should stay out of the way of this kind of thing, as it just > needlessly complicates the node. And we all know fred is complicated > enough.
I don't see why the whole compression thing is generating so much debate - most of the material on Freenet is already compressed, images, audio, video - all are as compressed as they are going to get, and attempting to compress them further is a waste of CPU resources. Realistically the only thing that will be compressed significantly are HTML files - and I suspect that this constitutes a tiny fraction of the total data stored on Freenet. As for the benefits of globbing a bunch of files together - I am sceptical about that too - it will force text-based browsers to download unnecessary data, and we will lose the benefits of individual caching of images which are reused in different places. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Creator, WhittleBit http://whittlebit.com/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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