<html><head></head><body> <div dir="auto">Hi Greg,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">FWIW using ztext4 as the ModDrv did not solve my aforementioned buffer issue. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Has anyone successfully used imp2vs with the -4 option ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David</div><div><br></div> <div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><div>Sent from <a href="https://proton.me/mail/home">Proton Mail</a> for iOS</div></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 02:04, Greg Hellings <<a class="" href="mailto:On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 02:04, Greg Hellings <<a href=">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"> <div dir="auto">
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.
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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.
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I think Matej is right. Poor connection and small devices remain a reality
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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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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>From:</b> sword-devel <<a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:sword-devel-bounces@crosswire.org">sword-devel-bounces@crosswire.org</a>> on behalf of Matěj Cepl <<a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:mcepl@cepl.eu">mcepl@cepl.eu</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 6, 2025 11:07 pm<br><b>To:</b> SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <<a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [sword-devel] Given today's device capacities, is compression useful?</span>
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</div>On Tue May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM CEST, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
<br>> - Nobody is using PDP-11s any more, and we're not struggling to transfer
<br>> data over sloppy, error-prone 56kbps links.
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<br>Except when we do … how is that Internet working in the rural
<br>India? I thought that particularly sword-related applications are
<br>meant to work for missionaries in environment hostile not only
<br>from the legal point of view.
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