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Re: Binary standards for images and sounds
Mark Wedel <master@rahul.net> writes:
> And while the data is not compact for XPM files, it is very compressible.
> You (Carl) have been talking about how the links wil be compressing the
> text information. The XPM data will be compressed just as nicely.
Can I ask that you please don't do this. There are many links which
do not compress -- for example all the backbone links. Shoving a 2
meg file out of my machine every time someone starts up will take a
minute at best @ 40k/second. This is not a particularily good startup
time -- actually it's really obnoxious.
In comparison, after compression by gzip, the file is 143k long, which
would take ~4 seconds to transfer. This is a much more palatable
startup time.
-Eric
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