[Geoprisma-dev] mod_deflate

[Alexandre Dube]

Yves Moisan wrote:

>> Yes, the 'nightly' compressed version of MapFish uses it.
>>     

'it' == mod_deflate (should had been more precise)

>
> I don't understand.  The nightly compressed JS uses jsbuild.  That
> weighs in at 1,1 MB.  So do you mean that this 1,1 MB compressed file
> gets shrunk down to 167 K using mod_deflate ?
>
> Playing around with the 1,1 MB file, I tried compressing it using the
> default Ubuntu "zipper" and I got :
>
> - 206 K in .7z format
> - 260 K in .zip format
>   

You're right, that's what I get for the MapFish.js file.

> So mod_deflate uses a more aggressive compression scheme I guess.
>   

No, you were right.

> Cheers,
>
> Yves
>
>   


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