Nope. Drives are slow. CPUs are fast. It's faster to load a small bit of data into memory and decompress it, than to read a large piece of uncompressed data. And this is getting truer every day.Originally Posted by stevesmithx
Nope. Drives are slow. CPUs are fast. It's faster to load a small bit of data into memory and decompress it, than to read a large piece of uncompressed data. And this is getting truer every day.
Thank u, brewbuck.
I have overlooked the h/w side.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
- Albert Einstein.
No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps poorly suited for particular purposes.
- Herbert Mayer
