- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 20:52:53 +0000
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- cc: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <fnlnp8t14lal0uk5suouc2uuk3uk4429dt@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>, Bjoer n Hoehrmann writes: >>And what is the plausibility that any new compression schemes will ever >>make that worth-while ? >[...] something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xz is quite near >a point where I would expect people to call for adoption of a new scheme >(with a filter optimized for such content > 10% better compression seems >very plausible to me). You forgot half the "worth-while" part: The compatibility issues. Even something as trivial as "deflate" vs. "gzip" was too hard for some people to get right. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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