Subj : Re: Another Feature/Issue...
To   : Ozz Nixon
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Feb 14 2019 11:07 pm

Hi Ozz,

On 2019-02-14 10:23:58, you wrote to me:

 ON> My uplink sends compressed, which to make makes much more sense then
 ON> compress on the fly (personal preference).

Current fidonet over the internet, is so fast, that most sessions only exchange 
a single pkt file, with only a single or a few messages, typically a few 
hundreds or thousands bytes. It makes no sense starting up a compression 
program, that writes them to an compressed "intermediate" file on disk before 
transmission, when most of those pkt files fit into a single tcp/ip frame. Or 
when binkp can compress them on the fly which doesn't require extra disk writes 
and reads for the compressed data.

Bye, Wilfred.

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