yes, i just wrote about this on the Gemini mailing list. Even with small 2K files there is a ~50% reduction in size (and more if you use dictionary based compre

yes, i just wrote about this on the Gemini mailing list. Even with small 2K files there is a ~50% reduction in size (and more if you use dictionary based compression). If you are on an extremely slow link at sea that can mean a few seconds of extra loading time, which is significant. Of course in reality, few people are in this situation. But if you are designing a protocol where the fun and perhaps also the goal is optimizing for getting textual information across as efficiently as possible within any constraints of conceivable computing resources it's something I'd would want to consider. A simple check if a gmi is binary and if so decompress it would solve such an issue of lone gemini users on the moon or at sea.