Well I never said anything about etree switching. Just that it's interesting! :) 3 percent does not seem like much, but a 3-percent savings means a 4-hour download finishes more than 7 minutes earlier. A 6-hour download finishes almost 11 minutes earlier. For busy servers, that time would add up. It also could sometimes mean the difference between fitting a show on 3 CDs or 2. Sometimes that does come down to under 20 megs.
FLAC, under the GNU license, also has arguably more potential for future improvement since anyone can work on it! Carl > One of the cool things about FLAC is that it's liscensed > under GNU, and SHN > is not. However, SHN has been free for non-commercial use for > nearly 10 > years, so I doubt that'll ever change. > > I really don't think going from 433mb to 419mb is a > substantial improvement. > Mathematically its only 3 percent. > > Introducing other formats can become more than just a matter of > decompression speed and file size. What about db.etree.org > > (rest snipped) _______________________________________________ etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
