Re: compression (was Re: Freakin' chipmunks!)

[Michael JasonSmith]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 10:00, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> There's the problem: high compression. You only get high compression on 
> highly uniform data. Forget most jpeg/mpeg/mp3/rpm/tar.gz files. That 
> is, most of the larger stuff already has some sort of compression 
> applied to it. It's not going to get much smaller (may even get bigger!) 
> with extra compression.
And you also have to remember that a lot (if not most) Web pages are
compressed (with GZip) before they are sent across the Ether, so they
get added to the list :)
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Michael JasonSmith                                   http://www.ldots.org/