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what "binary encoded html" did you use? I would be interested in seeing this as my initial thought would be that the both would gzip to almost exactly the same
by samwillis 13y ago
what "binary encoded html" did you use? I would be interested in seeing this as my initial thought would be that the both would gzip to almost exactly the same size?
- voidlogic 13y ago>what "binary encoded html" did you use? This was for internal testing, so it was a custom implementation. >my initial thought would be that the both would gzip to almost exactly the same size? That is like saying you would expect a gzipped CSV file to be as small as a gzipped database engine file. This of course not the case.
- jessaustin 13y agoSo which is which? Is html the csv or the DB dump? What is this metaphor even supposed to mean? It's not as though a csv file is sufficient to serialize a database. Actually, it would be more informative to point us at a "binary encoding", any binary encoding, that compresses smaller than the equivalent html text.
- bitwize 13y agoI would expect the gzipped CSV file to be smaller. When you add in indexes or B-trees or whatever else database engines use to retrieve data quickly, database files can get quite big indeed.