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Pete Cordell writes: > I wouldn't be surprised if FI + gzip was actually faster than gzip alone. Me either, but gzip isn't primarily about speed. This is a little like saying: if you hook a race car to a Honda Fit (Honda's small economy car in the US), it may go a bit faster, and you may still use less gas than the race car would running at full speed. Right. If your primary point is to save gas (I.e. get compression) then it's possible that running FI first well help some with that. My point is that you'll almost surely wind up in a speed range (a bit faster than gzip) that is way off from the reason you'd use FI if you wanted speed (analogy to race car). It still seems to me that the main reason you want FI is either pure speed, or that speed with modest compression. Fine that's quite useful. It still seems to me that the main reason you want gzip is for much better compression when speed isn't a big issue. Fine, that's quite useful. As best I can tell, the FI+gzip combination is what you want when you were after what gzip gives you, and are willing to deal with some extra complexity to slightly modestly alleviate its speed issues. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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