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by bfung
5840 days ago
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mileage may vary; If the time it takes to compress is costs much less than the time it takes to transfer over the network, you might want not want to use gzip. For example, you're transferring a large file (1GB? 1TB?) to a remote person to deal with, is it cheaper to gzip (lower compression rate), take longer for the network transfer (most likely slowest step), and have the other person unzip, or to use a better compressor, and have the file transferred over quicker? |
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