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

Troy,

I’d put this investigation on to the back burner - other things have been occupying my attention.

But - Yes - the conf file was updated accordingly.

I had not thought to look for any cache file.

David

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 13:07, Troy A. Griffitts <[[email protected]](mailto:On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 13:07, Troy A. Griffitts <<a href=)> wrote:

> 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]>
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>>>> 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
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