[sword-devel] Given today's device capacities, is compression useful?

[Greg Hellings]

I think there is still reason for compression in transit and at rest. But I
think Karl might be right that we should just look to de-compress the
entire file at open to speed subsequent access.

I also think it might be worthwhile to change the tools to defaulting to
the 4-byte versions rather than the 2-byte versions. The usability wins
there are significant with basically no downside. The saving of 2 bytes in
an offset is basically zero.

--Greg

On Tue, May 6, 2025, 4:38 PM Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> I think Matej is right. Poor connection and small devices remain a reality
>
> Also just as telephones get more powerful people develop new small
> devices. I would think that smart watches and whatever else will eventually
> attract attention by one developer or another.
>
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> compression useful?
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> On Tue May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM CEST, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> > - Nobody is using PDP-11s any more, and we're not struggling to transfer
> > data over sloppy, error-prone 56kbps links.
>
> Except when we do … how is that Internet working in the rural
> India? I thought that particularly sword-related applications are
> meant to work for missionaries in environment hostile not only
> from the legal point of view.
>
> Best,
>
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