From: Jonathan Toomim <j@toom•im>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] request BIP number for: "Support for Datastream Compression"
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:05:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27BB52F9-3E3F-443D-93BC-B6843EB992F5@toom.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE0pACK1-xQC4MsdbM46_Z0TQvZTrZKw4e8xFt3X=PmW7pmGJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Data compression adds latency and reduces predictability, so engineers have decided to leave compression to application layers instead of transport layer or lower in order to let the application designer decide what tradeoffs to make.
On Nov 11, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> A random thought: aren't most communication over a data link already compressed, at some point?
> When I used a modem, we had the V.42bis protocol. Now, nearly all ADSL connections using PPPoE, surely are. And so on.
> I'm not sure another level of generic, data agnostic kind of compression will really give us some real-life practical advantage over that.
>
> Something that could take advantage of of special knowledge of the specific data, instead, would be an entirely different matter.
>
> Just my 2c.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-11 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-09 19:18 Peter Tschipper
2015-11-09 20:41 ` Johnathan Corgan
2015-11-09 21:04 ` Bob McElrath
2015-11-10 1:58 ` gladoscc
2015-11-10 5:40 ` Johnathan Corgan
2015-11-10 9:44 ` Tier Nolan
[not found] ` <5642172C.701@gmail.com>
2015-11-10 16:17 ` Peter Tschipper
2015-11-10 16:21 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-11-10 16:30 ` Tier Nolan
2015-11-10 16:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-11-10 17:09 ` Peter Tschipper
2015-11-11 18:35 ` Peter Tschipper
2015-11-11 18:49 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-11 19:05 ` Jonathan Toomim [this message]
2015-11-13 21:58 ` [bitcoin-dev] Block Compression (Datastream Compression) test results using the PR#6973 compression prototype Peter Tschipper
2015-11-18 14:00 ` [bitcoin-dev] More findings: " Peter Tschipper
2015-11-11 19:11 ` [bitcoin-dev] request BIP number for: "Support for Datastream Compression" Peter Tschipper
2015-11-28 14:48 ` [bitcoin-dev] further test results for : "Datastream Compression of Blocks and Tx's" Peter Tschipper
2015-11-29 0:30 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-11-29 5:15 ` Peter Tschipper
[not found] ` <56421F1E.4050302@gmail.com>
2015-11-10 16:46 ` [bitcoin-dev] request BIP number for: "Support for Datastream Compression" Peter Tschipper
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