Better is subjective. What is the bottleneck or resource allocation you're trying to overcome? Going on what the poster above says about CPU and memory - if th

Better is subjective. What is the bottleneck or resource allocation you're trying to overcome? Going on what the poster above says about CPU and memory - if the network speed or bandwidth allocation is the bottleneck, then trading CPU and memory utilisation increases for lower bandwidth is likely acceptable. If, however, the device is low end and tying up memory and CPU with compression would lead to sluggish or impaired task performance but the network has adequate overhead for lower levels of compression or higher levels of data transfer then higher network utilisation would be preferable. Different tools, different use case scenarios.