Decompression speed is important. (And more important than compression speed.) But the bottleneck on mobile devices is increasingly falling on the mobile networ

Decompression speed is important. (And more important than compression speed.) But the bottleneck on mobile devices is increasingly falling on the mobile network. CPU performance per watt is falling dramatically where mobile bandwidth per watt is staying relatively static. If this continues eventually we'll get to the point where the power usage (e.g. for loading and displaying a web page) is completely dominated by data transfer, and more and more computationally expensive compression becomes the best way to save overall power by trading cheap cpu cycles for expensive bandwidth.