On 4/20/08, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > google probably compresses their cached versions of webpages to > primarily save disk space. > (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)
they did as what their paper stated :-> they compress and stored after they mining it.. > apache has mod_deflate probably to save on hosting bandwidth and > speedup downloads. > (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/speed-up-apache-20-web-access-or-downloads-with- > mod_deflate.html) yup and take note there is a filter to compress text only as you cannot benefit compression for example graphic files, mp3s, *.tar.gz and other files that were already compressed... same true on the disk scenario... therefore the compression module must be intelligent enough to decides which file format is to compress and not... > there is still a possibility, although not practical or feasible, or > maybe not currently possible. it really depends because it is a tradeoff between space and time... but compression technology has its place always... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
