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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 03:37:09PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> Using gzip is better than not using it though, since 4k worth of
> compressed data is better than 4k worth of plain text because of
> higher entropy destiny (note that the FreeBSD gzip uses 64K of
> input/output buffer for compression by the way so maybe only the first
> 64K is meaningful if we take only 4k of output).

Since there is 1:1 correspondence between compressed and uncompressed
data, entropy should be the same in both. I am not sure it's better to
use compression than not -- you do end up seeding fewer bytes to yarrow,
but you spend more CPU cycles compressing it...