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The tradeoff you show between compression ratio and compression speed is a misleading one. The slow compression speed only takes place once (when compressing),
by luckystarr 6y ago
The tradeoff you show between compression ratio and compression speed is a misleading one.
The slow compression speed only takes place once (when compressing), while the saved bandwidth due to a better compression ratio is saved continuously.
- OskarS 6y agoNot if you're serving things dynamically from a web server, then it happens on the fly, every request.
- luckystarr 6y agoTrue. But there you can go into optimizations like parallelization of the compression and building an optimized dictionary upfront once to make the process faster.
- pmarreck 6y agoCache by the ETag and/or If-Modified-Since headers, then