> It's faster but that makes no difference for our use cases. When working with > LAN passing uncompressed data is anyway the best option. > Compression makes sense only for very slow and/or very long (many hops) > WAN. Under that conditions compression's performance does not matter.
If you are using a metered connection to access a database, the amount of data exchanged does matter. Further, given the obvious performance benefit of zstd over other compression algorithms (https://community.centminmod.com/threads/round-3-compression-comparison-benchmarks-zstd-vs-brotli-vs-pigz-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-etc.17259/), the project should replace zlib with zstd. Personally, I would like to see the project adopt "library" type for compression approach which would allow me to use the 7zip library with the LZMA2 algorithm for creating gbaks and/or nbackups, it is multi-threaded (CPU intensive) but generates the best compression. Sean Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
