Re: #578: getting real-ish numbers for option 3

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On 28/10/2014 1:05 p.m., Nicholas Hurley wrote:
> I'll chime in. Short answer - no, these have not changed my mind at
> all. If anything, they've reinforced my view.
> 
> These numbers are, once again, along the same lines of other
> changes we've already rejected as a working group - relatively
> miniscule improvements that are not worth invalidating testing we
> have already done. If this change improved the compression ratio
> significantly then we might have something worth investigating in
> another implementation draft. These numbers don't indicate any
> significant improvement in compression ratio, and so don't warrant
> any further investigation.

Huh?  -10% bandwidth reduction == "miniscule" savings ?

Statistically speaking 5% change in any one use case is "sigificant".

Amos

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