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Curious — which network transfer protocol are you using that doesn’t support compression on the fly? And if its just for transfer, why not gzip instead?
by mayank 9y ago
Curious — which network transfer protocol are you using that doesn’t support compression on the fly? And if its just for transfer, why not gzip instead?
- mitchty 9y ago2GiB quotas on home directories is another reason, but explaining it all on hn isn't really a goal of mine. Suffice it to say there are a confluence of issues. As to network compression via ssh say versus compression of the binary, time it you might be surprised at the difference.
- kichik 9y agoUPX is usually better than other generic compression utilities. IIRC it actually modifies the executable before compressing it to provide better compression. I think on Windows it reversibly changes relative addresses to absolute addresses so you get better compression rates.