I'm really not a fan of this at all. To start with, adding a compression
library that is directly accessible to the network on financial software is a
really, really scary idea. If there were a massive improvement, I'd find it
acceptable, but the improvement you've shown really isn't all that mu
@gmaxwell Bip Editor, and the Bitcoin Dev Community,
After several weeks of experimenting and testing with various
compression libraries I think there is enough evidence to show that
compressing blocks and transactions is not only beneficial in reducing
network bandwidth but is also provides a sm
Thanks for providing an in-depth, data driven analysis.
It is surprising that zlib provides better compression at the high end. I
wonder if that is due to our specific data patterns - many zeroes - which
probably puts us into the zlib dictionary fast path.
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Pete
