On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0100, Gordan wrote: > 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.
I suspect the ratio between HTML and non-HTML data will be more-or-less constant irrespective of the total amount of WWW information - the point still remains that much time will be wasted trying to compress uncompressable data unless the client looks at the MIME-types to determine suitability for compression. 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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