[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Cheng
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Florent Daigniere wrote: > * Gregory Maxwell [2009-12-15 18:39:24]: > >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Florent Daigniere >> wrote: >> > Modern compression algorithms allow FAST decompression. We are talking >> > 10 to 20 times faster here! >> > >> >

[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread David ‘Bombe’ Roden
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[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Florent Daigniere
* Gregory Maxwell [2009-12-15 18:39:24]: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Florent Daigniere > wrote: > > Modern compression algorithms allow FAST decompression. We are talking > > 10 to 20 times faster here! > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Markov_chain_algorithm > > #

[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread bo-le
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 00:08:37 schrieb Ian Clarke: > As a test, I attempted to upload a 1GB avi file through FProxy. It > then proceeded to spend (at least) 20 minutes trying to compress it - > I say "at least" because I killed it before it was done. > > Of course, attempting to compress

[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Florent Daigniere > wrote: >> * Gregory Maxwell [2009-12-15 18:39:24]: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Florent Daigniere >>> wrote: >>> > Modern compression

[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Martin 'The Bishop' Scheffler
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[freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Martin 'The Bishop' Scheffler
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Re: [freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Martin 'The Bishop' Scheffler
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 00:39:24 Gregory Maxwell wrote: There is a *ton* of available bandwidth on optical fibers. For the communication part we have Butter's law: Butters' Law says the amount of data coming out of an optical fiber is doubling every nine months[1] well, efficiency on

Re: [freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread bo-le
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 00:08:37 schrieb Ian Clarke: As a test, I attempted to upload a 1GB avi file through FProxy. It then proceeded to spend (at least) 20 minutes trying to compress it - I say at least because I killed it before it was done. Of course, attempting to compress an

Re: [freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Florent Daigniere
* Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com [2009-12-15 18:39:24]: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Florent Daigniere nextg...@freenetproject.org wrote: Modern compression algorithms allow FAST decompression. We are talking 10 to 20 times faster here!

Re: [freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Cheng
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Florent Daigniere nextg...@freenetproject.org wrote: * Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com [2009-12-15 18:39:24]: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Florent Daigniere nextg...@freenetproject.org wrote: Modern compression algorithms allow FAST decompression. We

Re: [freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Daniel Cheng j16sdiz+free...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Florent Daigniere nextg...@freenetproject.org wrote: * Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com [2009-12-15 18:39:24]: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Florent Daigniere

Re: [freenet-dev] compressing files unnecessarily

2009-12-16 Thread David ‘Bombe’ Roden
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:32:14 Martin 'The Bishop' Scheffler wrote: We do provide an option for not attempting any compression at all. but, this is only true for file-by-file uploads. the mass downloader does not have this option. Of course not, this option does not make any sense