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minus-squaredrathvedro@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 years agoThis ‘compress’ everything is such a waste of CPU and energy. Plus “oops, all your files are gone, tee hee”. GZ everywhere is fucking stupid. More complexity for zero benefit. - CTO at my previous company
minus-squaretwei@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoTo be fair: there are many things where compression is a waste of CPU time, like fonts and about 90% of non-text media as they’re already compressed
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoWhat, you don’t love downloading a zip file that contains an msi (which is perfectly capable of internally compressing much of its internal data)?
This ‘compress’ everything is such a waste of CPU and energy. Plus “oops, all your files are gone, tee hee”. GZ everywhere is fucking stupid. More complexity for zero benefit.
- CTO at my previous company
To be fair: there are many things where compression is a waste of CPU time, like fonts and about 90% of non-text media as they’re already compressed
What, you don’t love downloading a zip file that contains an msi (which is perfectly capable of internally compressing much of its internal data)?