Re: Compression/Tokens/Big Files/Small Files/and rubber ducks

Mitra ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 1995 22:30:55 -0700

At 2:59 AM 6/1/95, Neophytos Iacovou wrote:
> A few comments on the latest frenzy (ie: trying to compress VRML files).
>
> 1) While all of this discussion may one day prove to be very important
> how important is it *today*? It seems to me that nobody has any *real*
> idea about the type of VRML files people are going to produce, because
> nobody has really generated any yet. Until we actually see people
> using VRML, seeing what they produced, how can we rush into claims
> about how best to compress them. How do we even know that we need to
> compress them?

I think it is an important discussion today, I keep hearing from people who
don't bother to look at VRML files because they just take too long to
download.

I have a 64k line to my Indy, and still its not worth downloading most of
the files out there. A file of 1Mb takes 3 minutes just to retrieve, then
it has to be parsed and rendered, 5 mins if I'm lucky before I get to see
anything.

1Mb pages are almost non-existant on the Web.

- Mitra

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