On Friday 01 Aug 2003 18:21, Ian Clarke wrote: > 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.
That may be the case, but the benefit is in both retrieval speed and storage space. If the long-term view of Freesites replacing the www is taken, then I suspect the amount of html content will become a much bigger and much more frequently used data set. > 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. I agree with that to a degree approaching 100%... Gordan _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
