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Trading cpu for bandwidth, so optimize for what you want.

• koolba 8y ago
  Decompression is usually cheaper (CPU-wise) than compression so technically you’re trading their CPU for less of your bandwidth and CPU. If you do it right you can even keep the content stored compressed without re-compressing by saving the compressed byte stream directly.
  • tgtweak 8y ago
    Also use pigz instead of gzip so it can use multiple threads on decoding (although you're probably Limited by sending bandwidth)
    • jwilk 8y ago
      pigz doesn't help much with decompression: https://github.com/madler/pigz/issues/36#issuecomment-249041503 https://github.com/madler/pigz/issues/36#issuecomment-249041... Decompression can’t be parallelized, at least not without specially prepared deflate streams for that purpose. As a result, pigz uses a single thread (the main thread) for decompression, but will create three other threads for reading, writing, and check calculation, which can speed up decompression under some circumstances.