On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Mika Tuupola wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
>
> > In Japan it's flat-rate data now, so compression only slows
> > things down, but does not make any change for
> > flat-fee-all-you-can-eat data.
>
> Actually it speeds things up atleast in two ways.
>
> 1) since there is less data it takes less time to transfer
> the page from the server to the handset, thus making the
> pages load faster.
>
> 2) since it takes less time to serve the page to
> the handset, the server processes will available
> sooner to serve the next request. This lessens the
> load on the content server, thus speeding things
> up.
Uh, must clarify myself a bit. I was talking about
content compression in general. I have no experience
with the Opera Proxy.
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Wed Jun 30 22:56:33 2004