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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)



In message <199702181014.LAA01115@kom30.ethz.ch>, Germano Caronni writes:
> 
> Compression allows for saving a valuable ressource.

Which valuable resource is that? In my books, compression is a time-time
tradeoff; the amount of time spent compressing v.s. the amount of time spent
transmitting. As network bandwidths get higher and higher, compression gets
more and more expensive.

-- 
Harald Koch <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>


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