Message187833
| Author |
neologix |
| Recipients |
alexandre.vassalotti, asvetlov, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka |
| Date |
2013年04月26日.06:43:42 |
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-1.0 |
| Marked as misclassified |
Yes |
| Message-id |
<1366958622.95.0.939603903102.issue17810@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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| Content |
> I would like to see Proto4 include an option for compression
> (zlib,bz2) or somesuch and become self-decompressing upon unpickling.
I don't see what this would bring over explicit compression:
- depending on the use case, you may want to use different compression algorithms, e.g. for disk you may want higher compression ratio like bzip2/lzma, but for wire you'd prefer something fast like snappy
- supporting multiple compression algorithms and levels would complicate the API
- this would probably complicate the code, since you'd have to support optional compression, and have a way to indicate which format is used
- that's really mixing two entirely different concepts (serialization vs compression) |
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