Subj : Re: ZLIB compression
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Michiel Broek
Date : Tue Jun 14 2005 09:54 pm

Hi Maurice,

Maurice Kinal wrote to Michiel Broek:
MK> Hey Michiel!
MK> 
MK> Jun 13 20:12 05, Michiel Broek wrote to Maurice Kinal:
MK> 
MK>  MB> It is. It can speed up transfers a lot. On broadband that is not so 
MK>  MB> much an
MK>  MB> issue, but on dialup it can do a lot of good.
MK> 
MK> For sure.  Especially when dealing with large amounts of information.  I 
MK> don't imagine it would make all that much difference with small pkt's.  I 

For small pkts it doesn't help much, the the time is spent on opening the
file and removing it from the outbound.

MK> am wondering if it would actually slow things down on a LAN if just 
MK> dealing with polls and small transfers.  Probably not but I'd imagine 
MK> there would be no appreciable difference in transfer speeds.

It speeds things up on a lan too, but it will depend on the cpu power too.
If you have a slow cpu then you loose

Here is a plain ascii file I got today, with my current connection I can get
at most 160 Kb/s.

mbcico[27760] Binkp: receive file "FSP-1018.002" date Jun 07 03:28:01 
  size 83568 offset 0
mbcico[27760] Binkp: compressed 59899 bytes, compression 71.7%
mbcico[27760] Binkp: OK 83568 bytes received in 0.299 seconds (272.941 Kb/s)


MK>  MB> There was/is 4dos.
MK> 
MK> Was.  I haven't seen that in about a decade.  In fact this is the first 
MK> I've heard anything about it in almost that long.  Played with whatever 
MK> came bundled with dosemu about 8 years ago (freedos?) but wasn't all that 
MK> impressed with that setup.  Haven't looked back since.  :-)

I used to use it long, long ago.

MK> QEdit ran okay in that but was more hassel then it was worth.  Too bad 
MK> really.
MK> 
MK>  MB> The goal for me wasn't compiling windows executables. It's just that 
MK>  MB> the
MK>  MB> environment is around that made it possible.
MK> 
MK> May try that sometime in the future but I really don't see a need for it.  

MK> Maybe but not today.

That was what I thought too. Back to good old gcc.



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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