Bill Nalen wrote: > I'm wondering if there's a reason to have the pdb file use compressed > pages other than the pdb size. I'm assuming that it would be faster > to have the pages uncompressed, but I might not be understanding > everything about the viewer. If I have plenty of room on my Palm, > does it make sense to still compress the pages?
ZLIB compression can reduce the PDB size to about 50 to 55%. This means you can store nearly twice as much content. I think that alone is a compelling reason. > Does anyone have any comparisons? I assume there is some trade off > between the look up time and the uncompress time. Based on actual usage uncompressed records display somewhat faster when a page is read for the first time. The difference is more pronounced when the document is stored in RAM rather than on an SD card. This is of course subjective, I don't have any hard numbers. (I'm running this on a 33Mhz Dragonball.) > The reason I ask is that the conduit will run faster if compression > is off and I'd like to leave it that way. There should at least be an option to use compression. Regards -Laurens _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
