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Re: gnutls 2.99.1 drops LZO support
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: gnutls 2.99.1 drops LZO support |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:11:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110015 (No Gnus v0.15) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Nikos,
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> writes:
> On 04/23/2011 11:47 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>>> ** libgnutls-extra: Dropped support of LZO compression via liblzo.
>> Out of curiosity, what were the reasons for this decision?
>
> No reason to have it either.
It’s an interesting trade-off in the compression ratio vs. compression
time space.
> It was an experimental custom extension that had no chance of becoming
> standard due to LZO being described only by source code.
Like zlib used to be. :-)
> There are better compression algorithms to use today, but as it seems
> compression with TLS in general never took off.
OK.
Thanks,
Ludo’.