Am Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:48:11 +0100 schrieb Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net>:
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:45 +0100, Xavier wrote:
Also, if I am not mistaken, a given package is compressed only once, by the packager, but decompressed many many times (by all users). But of course the compression time needs to stay reasonable enough for the packager, and the opinion of active packagers or packagers with huge packages is important. Otherwise, if the download time benefit is lower than the decompression time slowdown for many users with high bandwidth, we should still think about all the poor users with low bandwidth :) And in any cases, there is a bandwidth win on both sides (user / server) so that is always good.
Looking at OpenOffice.org, I think the gain in upload time is much larger than the loss of compression time.
1M upload here... so I doubt a bit but don't care much whatever compression we will use. -Andy