:) Now Apache Commons Compress. There are licensing issues with it but we can reasonably safely ignore them as ASL2 will be compatible with GPL3 anyway. It's on the todo list.
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:42:58AM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: > I agree. Given that Freenet transfer speed is currently so slow, the > delay incurred by the compression will be more than made for. > That said the issue is more complex since Freenet is both a transport > layer, and a Application layer.. Intellectual arguments aside, It's > worth it here. > > Not to bring up an old argument, but.. http://www.kohsuke.org/bzip2/ ;) > > -Colin > > On Aug 12, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > > >* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-08-12 14:12:47]: > > > >>I think we should try to compress (gzip) all inserted files unless > >>explicitly asked not to via DontCompress, and that the insert form > >>should default to dontcompress=false. My justification for this is > >>simply that: > >>- If we set the default to DontCompress=true, we will have to > >>maintain a > >> registry of uncompressible mime types, because some data is > >> really compressible, and that data will be radically smaller (and > >> therefore faster) to insert. > >>- Even for AVIs, for example, gzip will usually squeeze out an > >>extra 1% > >> or so. 1% of 700MB is 7MB. Inserting an extra 7MB will probably > >>take > >> longer than the time it takes to gzip 700MB. > > > >I'm in favor of compressing by default too. Maybe we can add a > >configuration setting for people not happy with the default. > > > >NextGen$ > >_______________________________________________ > >Tech mailing list > >Tech at freenetproject.org > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060812/b95312c3/attachment.pgp>
