On 28 Apr 2001, Mr.Bad wrote: > >>>>> "CA" == Chris Anderson <chris at excon.charm.net> writes: > > CA> It's a simple eq, compress time + xfer time( compressed data ) > CA> vs xfer time( data ). > > It's an oversimplified eq. That's not necessarily true at all. > > CA> If you get 50% compression you save 50% of xfer time, > > If you're talking about a packet-based system (hello IP), you're > probably going to get about the same time for sending 1K of data as > for sending 4 or 8K. > > So, the equation becomes, for sufficiently small data values, compress > time + const xfer time vs. const xfer time. > > Of course, once again, feel free to prove me wrong. >
No, I agree. In addition, there is usually a several K window size in software based compressors, so the const xfer time is especially true in that case. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Mon Apr 30 02:05:40 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05024 for <danello at danky.com>; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:37:22 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
