Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2016, at 10:54, Philip Homburg wrote:
> 
> > I find it hard to believe that after compression, the BSON encoded
> > version of the DNS data would be a lot smaller than just the
> > raw DNS data.
> 
> Please note the use case in the draft: they don't want to burden the CPU of
> the box with compressing with gzip, bzip, and so on.

This draft compares lz4 vs gzip vs xz. If minimizing CPU usage is a
concern, I'd be curious to see zstd (http://zstd.net/) added to the set
of compressors being compared. I've found that zstd is often capable of
beating gzip's compression ratio while consuming much less CPU.

-- 
Robert Edmonds

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