>>>>> "SR" == Stefan Reich <doc at drjava.de> writes:
>> This seems like a problem in search of a solution. The stuff
>> that needs compressing is already compressed. The stuff that
>> isn't already compressed, like HTML files and text files, is
>> small enough that compressing it is going to take longer than
>> sending over the wire raw.
SR> Compressing takes longer than sending uncompressed data? You
SR> can't be not serious!
I am not being not serious! I'm being serious. Sending a 2K file
uncompressed will take less time than compressing it to 1K and sending
that.
Feel free to write a sample program to prove me wrong.
~Mr. Bad
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