One of my favourites ;)
cpu hogging is a very personal thing. If the processor has nothing else
to do it doesn't matter - unless you're running on a battery about to go
flat :(
Rick
PS compression works mostly on the tags - see the permathread ...
Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> --- Paul Topping <> wrote:
>
>
>> That's why there's compression. It works a lot
>> better than tag
>> minimization. For one thing, it compresses the
>> content, not just the
>> structure.
>>
>
> And yet from performance perspective, is much less
> efficient than tag minimization (or selective
> compression using somewhat markup-specific/optimized
> schemed); at least if we are talking about general
> purpose compression like deflate... at least if one
> considers actual throughput -- although it saves
> network bandwidth, comp/decompression is a cpu hog.
>
> Content compression, specifically, often provides no
> throughput improvement at all. Name canonicalization
> and indexing on the other hand has impact as easy to
> implement.
>
> -+ Tatu +-
>
>
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