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Well, for one, it's not obviously useful in traditional applications: > This makes images a few percent larger (due to more gzip headers and loss of compressio
by xyzzy_plugh 8y ago
Well, for one, it's not obviously useful in traditional applications:
> This makes images a few percent larger (due to more gzip headers and loss of compression context between files), but it's plenty acceptable.
Compressing an entire image is generally great. Compressing all of the individual files in an image, is generally not great.
- bradfitz 8y agoMaybe not great, but like I said: acceptable. About 7.6% bigger: https://github.com/golang/build/commit/8a5a4d227f08eb1d889fa0c0f67dc71020c222f1 https://github.com/golang/build/commit/8a5a4d227f08eb1d889fa...
- koolba 8y agoThat's what I meant by "brilliantly simple"; namely having something like this work with existing systems while imposing a marginal overhead.