Re: ZIP archive API? from Jonas Sicking on 2013-05-04 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2013)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:22:47 -0700
To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Andrea Marchesini <amarchesini@mozilla.com>, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com>, Paul Bakaus <pbakaus@zynga.com>
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On May 3, 2013 4:20 PM, "Charles Pritchard" <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>
> >> platforms, but it matters a great deal
> >> on underpowered devices such as mobiles.
> >
> > Show me some numbers to back this up and you'll have me convinced :)
> >
> > Remember that on underpowered devices native code is proportionally
slower too.
>
>
> The word around town is that asm.js takes about 2x longer than native
compiled code.

So how long does the actual compression/decompression take for the size of
archives web developers usually deal with? IO aside given that that is the
same in JS and native.

/ Jonas

Received on Saturday, 4 May 2013 01:23:15 UTC