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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)
In message <199702181014.LAA01115@kom30.ethz.ch>, Germano Caronni writes:
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> 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.
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Harald Koch <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>
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