Re: Given today's device capacities, is compression useful?

There are people in third world countries who would be jealous of a 300kbps connection that worked after a few tries. There are much worse. I used to live in Papua New Guinea. Very expensive and poor Internet. Vanuatu is worse...

On 5/8/25 05:42, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM DM Smith<[email protected]> wrote:
>> If most frontends download the zipped module, perhaps that is sufficient for in transit? Does it zip tiny enough for a module without compression? How does it compare to a module that uses zText or zText4?
>>
>> Is at rest size really an issue? I think most people would have a module or two.
>>
>> BTW, I have heard in 3rd world countries cellular is often the only means of accessing the internet and thus downloading files and that connections are not reliably stable.
> I'm in the US and cellular is my only means of accessing the Internet,
> and at one point that cellular link gave me about 300Kbps max download
> speed. Downloads failed often and installing modules via Xiphos was a
> pain.
>

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