[Tiquor]

Yeah, why go through all this?

[Somojojojo]

Well, at the end of the article he shows this technique used along with gzip. He however does not show a comparison of the original vs his 90deg compression with gzip; so the difference there may be negligible.

[xellisx]

"After GZip the original file was squeezed down to just 132 bytes, however GZip took my technique down to just 99 bytes which saves a further 33 bytes."

When you want speed - every byte counts right?

[tym0]

He does say that the original file gzipped is 132 bytes, doesn't seem worth it to me.

[larvyde]

You end up basically returning a dump of an SQL query