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"5) GZIP rarely necessary." if the server already has the bytes gzipped, it is often pure win to ship the gzipped bytes: consider that the client may be able
by philsnow 13y ago
"5) GZIP rarely necessary."
if the server already has the bytes gzipped, it is often pure win to ship the gzipped bytes: consider that the client may be able to finish uncompressing the gzipped response earlier than it could otherwise have received the last byte of the uncompressed response.
- mjt0229 13y agoThat's a neat idea. But in the case that the server doesn't have them zipped, I'm not sure that the blanket statement made in the blog post is really right, either.