From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: This is not a problem but...
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 18:46:26 -0700
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Arthur wrote:

> True, but I was thinking strictly theoretically. In practice
> (especially
> with my UDMA Hard Disc with onboard cache) loading the compressed file
> would
> be slower. But think: how much of a speed overhead does compression
> have? On
> my ST, uncompressing a 2MB zipped file takes several minutes. On a
> DX2/66 it
> takes a matter of seconds. Why don't more people use data compression?

There's a really simple answer to that question:  Because disk space is
really, really cheap.

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