Re: LANG: VRML 1.x Binary Format Proposal

Mitra ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 1995 12:49:13 -0700

At 6:55 PM 5/31/95, Mark Waks wrote:
>Mitra points out that, for small files, there may be drawbacks to
>compression. This may well be true (wouldn't even be surprising), but
>is it important? I don't *think* we're talking about replacing the
>existing format, just adding alternatives. Am I incorrect? Is anyone
>actually proposing that we we move to *only* a binary format? Or, for
>that matter, *requiring* compression?

No - what I'm trying to point out is that the case of lots of small files
may hurt our bandwidth as much as the big files, in which case a binary
format would be pretty easy to handle whereas launching gzip costs time and
for really small files doesnt gain us much.

- Mitra

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