On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:35:42 +0200, Pau Giner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I thought it could be of interest:
>>
>> https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compression-saving-22-losslessly-from-images-at-15mbs/
>>
>
> Interesting. I'm not sure if our upload backend people are on this list
> (mostly Aaron and Filippo take care of it). You might want to forward it to
> them.
>
> I wonder if the disk space savings for us would be worth the engineering
> time. It probably was for Dropbox (if the 22% reduction saves them
> "multiple petabytes of space"), but we "only" have terabytes of JPG images
> (most of them on Commons:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics), and hard
> disks are not that expensive. I'm not really qualified to judge, though :)


How would that work? Most of Dropbox's traffic is probably between their
servers and their (desktop or mobile) clients, so they can just convert
to/from JPEG on both endpoints. For Wikimedia, ~99% of the traffic is sent
to a web browser which does not support Lepton.
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