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

[Troy A. Griffitts]

David,

It should have fixed your problem.  Did you change the ModDrv setting in 
your module.conf file?  The newer versions of the engine cache all 
module.conf file under the mods.d/ folder, so if there is a cache file 
there, be sure to delete it if you are editing by hand (the engine 
refreshes this cache if it is installing modules).

Troy


On 5/8/25 4:15 AM, David Haslam wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> FWIW using ztext4 as the ModDrv did not solve my aforementioned buffer 
> issue.
>
> Has anyone successfully used imp2vs with the -4 option ?
>
> David
>
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>
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 02:04, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com 
> <mailto:On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 02:04, Greg Hellings <<a href=>> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>     Sent from Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
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>>     *From:* sword-devel <sword-devel-bounces at crosswire.org> on behalf
>>     of Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu>
>>     *Sent:* Tuesday, May 6, 2025 11:07 pm
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>>     *Subject:* Re: [sword-devel] Given today's device capacities, is
>>     compression useful?
>>     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,
>>
>>     Matěj
>>     -- 
>>     http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, @mcepl at en.osm.town
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>>     We are told that [St. Anthony] once fell into dejection, finding
>>     uninterrupted contemplation above his strength; but was taught to
>>     apply himself at intervals to manual labour by a vision of an
>>     angel who appeared platting mats of palm-tree leaves, then rising
>>     to pray, and after some time sitting down again to work; and who
>>     at length said to him, “Do thus, and thou shalt be saved.”
>>     -- Life of St. Anthony
>>
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