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Being second-best on ratio and ubiquity is still pretty handy for serving files. It's compress-once, decompress on somebody else's machine, so neither of those
by jtolmar 11y ago
Being second-best on ratio and ubiquity is still pretty handy for serving files. It's compress-once, decompress on somebody else's machine, so neither of those matter. Ratio saves you money and ubiquity means people can actually use the file.
- bfung 11y ago> It's compress-once, decompress on somebody else's machine, so neither of those matter. Last week, there was a drive mount that was filling up, rate was roughly 30Gb/hr. The contents of that mount was used by the web application. Deletion was not an option. Something that compressed quickly was needed. And on the retrieval end, when the web app needs to do decompression, seconds matter.