Comment by bythreads
5 months ago
Patently untrue,
Seriously try to Deflate a 50mb compressed json structure vs just piping it down the wire on a high bandwith connection and try to measure that. (In real life with a server and browser - browsers are super slow at this)
> browsers are super slow at this
No, DEFLATE is an asymmetric compression algorithm, meaning that decompression is disproportionally faster (at least 100 MB/s in my experience) than compression. It should mostly be a server's fault to use too high and ineffective compression setting or to use an inefficient library like the stock zlib.