On Friday 01 June 2007 17:47, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 01 June 2007 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote:
You saw a carefully crafted demo. Don't assume you'd see similar performance in a real-world situation.
You know what they say: Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV)
Non-cached data flows very fast with WAAS.
Taking speedup of 10x it is probably text compressed on the fly. Linux can do that see http://rute.2038bug.com/
Given the types of data that currently comprise the bulk of WWW traffic, only the markup formats, principally HTML or XHTML and the occasional XML document themselves, bear much compression. All the other formats, images, audio, Flash, archive files, etc. are already well compressed. I suppose once SVG becomes common, it might benefit from compression, too (it's an XML format). This same approach has been taken by some ISPs. You install some proprietary (usually Windows-only) software and by then funneling all your traffic through their proxy servers, they can cache and compress the select objects. They've mostly been hype-heavy, and have not, to my knowledge, seen widespread adoption.
-- Regards, Rajko.
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