Nutomic/ensichat

Data compression?

deavmi opened this issue · 5 comments

deavmi commented

I was wondering if zipping all the data that gets sent over the network would be a good idea. There will probably be more overhead, but of which is not bad. Because of compressing and decompressing.

Nutomic commented

The protocol is already efficient regarding size, as it's binary (not json or so). Text messages are usually short (and take less space than the protocol headers). And images, video etc would already be compressed.

So I don't think this would be worth the effort.

deavmi commented

Just saying. I know what you are saying but there would be even smaller network traffic then. Another point is that the protocol is using flooding, which means a large message will ternpirarily clog up the neteorj

deavmi commented
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Nutomic commented

Compression really won't make a noticable difference, so I'm closing this for now.

deavmi commented

Okay. :)

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Compression really won't make a noticable difference, so I'm closing this for now.

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