Subj : Re: ZLIB compression
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Michiel Broek
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 09:13 pm

Hi Russell,

Russell Tiedt wrote to Michiel Broek:
RT> Hello Michiel.
RT> 


RT> 
RT>  MB> Both methods are different I believe, Argus/mbse use packet
RT>  MB> compression, I think binkd uses stream compression. The Argus/mbse
RT>  MB> implementation checks each packet before transmission to see what is
RT>  MB> the best method, so it continuous switches between compression and no
RT>  MB> compression which depends on the data to transmit. And then these 
RT> also
RT>  MB> use variable packetsize sending compressed packets.
RT> 
RT> All a bit complex, but so far it works very well ...

It sure does, you can get amazing speeds with uncompressed files.

RT>  MB> implementation checks each packet before transmission to see what is

    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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