I get the feeling that the people in this thread who are saying "compression is faster" might really be thinking about levels of abstraction ... the idea of "compressing" low-level concepts into high-level ones by eliminating detail. If you do all your work at a high level of abstraction, then you rarely have to take the performance hit associated with "decompressing" the ideas.
Or perhaps transmission speed is at issue. If you had, for instance, a system that was strong on processing power and weak on memory bandwidth, compressing/decompressing the data every time you moved it in and out of memory could be the fastest thing to do. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T26a5f8008aa0b4f8-M51bb8d7e979a7eeedf2c4946 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
