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

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 <[email protected] 
> <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 < [email protected]> 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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>>     *From:* sword-devel <[email protected]> on behalf
>>     of Matěj Cepl <[email protected]>
>>     *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/, @[email protected]
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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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