IIRC in a bunch of scenarios compression makes loading and file access faster, as you're I/O limited and it's quicker to read less data and decompress. You do n

IIRC in a bunch of scenarios compression makes loading and file access faster, as you're I/O limited and it's quicker to read less data and decompress. You do need to choose simple/quick/not-that-much-compressing compression algorithms for that.