Subj : Re: Another Feature/Issue...
To : Ozz Nixon
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Feb 16 2019 12:08 pm
Hi Ozz,
On 2019-02-15 10:48:06, you wrote to me:
WV>> Current fidonet over the internet, is so fast, that most sessions
WV>> only exchange a single pkt file, with only a single or a few
WV>> messages, typically a few hundreds or thousands bytes. It makes no
WV>> sense starting up a compression program, that writes them to an
WV>> compressed "intermediate" file on disk before transmission, when most
WV>> of those pkt files fit into a single tcp/ip frame. Or when binkp can
WV>> compress them on the fly which doesn't require extra disk writes and
WV>> reads for the compressed data.
ON> True for Fidonet - however, other networks I am on push hundreds of
ON> messages per poll. But, I only poll them 2 or 3 times a day - and they are
ON> extremely active. No problem.
That's a use-case where compression makes sense. So it's a good thing you can
choose for each connection if you want compression or not! ;)
Bye, Wilfred.
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