From: Christoph Eyrich (eyrich_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Sat Jun 07 1997 - 04:58:01 EDT
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Paul Khoury wrote:
> >BTW, if you're not using data compression, you can save lots of bytes in
> >W95 by using it.
>
> Compression also slows down the system. This may or may not be important to you, depending on your
> applications.
This is not necessarily true any longer. I don't know about W95 but
there are OSs which seem to run some jobs faster with compression.
This seems plausible because on fast machines it is the transfer of
data over the bus which takes times. The CPU is simply faster (if
the OS allows it to work properly...) and this is the place where
the extracting of compressed data takes place.
Christoph Eyrich
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