• drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    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

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      6 months ago

      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

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        6 months ago

        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)?