bug#30719: Progressively compressing piped input

2018-03-06 Thread Garreau, Alexandre
Le 05/03/2018 à 14h54, Mark Adler a écrit : > deflate has an inherent latency that accumulates enough data in order > to efficiently emit each deflate block. You can deliberately flush > (with zlib, not gzip), but if you do that too frequently, e.g. each > line, then you will get lousy compression

bug#30719: Progressively compressing piped input

2018-03-06 Thread Mark Adler
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > > Le 05/03/2018 à 14h54, Mark Adler a écrit : >> deflate has an inherent latency that accumulates enough data in order >> to efficiently emit each deflate block. You can deliberately flush >> (with zlib, not gzip), but if you do that too f