I mean, really, how many hundreds of people does it take to point out that "more compression is bogus"?
Has it occurred to anybody that this software might send _diffs_ of web pages, and the performance increase isn't mainly from compression at all?
MSN's homepage is nearly 30k, but how much of that really changes on a day-to-day basis? 10k? Bam! You just sped up your connection (sort of) by a factor of ~3.
How about e-mails? My Hotmail page is 60k now. If I get 5 new e-mails, I should only have to download a few extra k, not 60 again. Bam! Many times faster.
Try to think a little.
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I mean, really, how many hundreds of people does it take to point out that "more compression is bogus"? Has it occurred to anybody that this software might send _diffs_ of web pages, and the performance increase isn't mainly from compression at all? MSN's homepage is nearly 30k, but how much of that really changes on a day-to-day basis? 10k? Bam! You just sped up your connection (sort of) by a factor of ~3. How about e-mails? My Hotmail page is 60k now. If I get 5 new e-mails, I should only have to download a few extra k, not 60 again. Bam! Many times faster. Try to think a little.