By fk49408
via stardeveloper.com
Published: Nov 15 2008 / 15:35
Gzip and Deflate are two popular HTTP compression methods. I ran a test in C# to figure out which one is faster and by how much. Read this article to see which won the speed test and how to implement Gzip and Deflate HTTP compression in your website.
Comments
Computer.Linguist replied ago:
Wow... this is dumb. Of *course* Deflate is faster than Gzip. Gzip is Deflate plus CRC checks.... It's a speed/reliability tradeoff.
I think I'll take the safer, 20% slower gzip, thank you very much....
Faisal Khan replied ago:
@Computer.Linguist,
That is the point of the article: Deflate is faster. Now the question is why Gzip? You say reliability. Can you describe that in the context of compressed content being sent over internet? How is deflate unreliable if there are no CRC checks? Uncompressed HTML content is not CRC checked, does that make HTML content unreliable too? Please explain.
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