Re: (fonts) MTX skepticism

2009/6/26 Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 13:47 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I have not been able to find any *quantification*
>> > of the supposed practical benefits of MTX when
>> > compared to other available, generic compression
>> > methods (e.g., bzip2 or gzip with blocking to allow
>> > some semblance of random access).
>>
>> Vladimir Levantovsky posted exactly the numbers you are asking for a
>> couple days ago.  I recall 10-30% additional compression relative to
>> gzip.
>
> Searching the archives for obvious terms I can
> not find the message you refer to.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jun/0427.html

Also search http://www.w3.org/Fonts/Misc/minutes-2008-10 for "gzip"

Received on Saturday, 27 June 2009 11:55:22 UTC