[freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

[Travis Bemann]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:21:22PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Stefan Reich wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Anderson" <chris at excon.charm.net>
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Yeah, for the case of very small data packets I agree too.
> > 
> > But I still figure there are many cases where compression would make sense
> > (large data packets, relatively low bandwidth). And CPU time _is_ cheap,
> > even if a Freenet is supposed to be a non-intrusive background process.
> >