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"Mips – processing cycles, computer power – had always been cheaper than bandwidth. The computers got cheaper by the week and the phone bills stayed high by the
by gary_0 2y ago
"Mips – processing cycles, computer power – had always been cheaper than bandwidth. The computers got cheaper by the week and the phone bills stayed high by the month." - The Star Fraction, 1995
- gfody 2y agoeach visitor brings their own cpu to do this work whereas the server bandwidth is finite
- cj 2y agoI'm confused though. If the goal is to optimize for server bandwidth, wouldn't you still want to send the already-blurred photo? Surely that will be a smaller image size than the pre-blurred full res photo (while also reducing client-side CPU/OS requirements).
- pitched 2y agoWe don’t know the aspect ratio of the client window before-hand and on web, there are a lot of possibilities! So if any pre-blurred image is meant to peek out around the edges, those edge widths are dynamic. Otherwise, a low-res blurred image plus high-res non-blurred edges might be less bandwidth if overhead is low enough.