> Thanks, but I think you missed my point. I assume that the reason people
would use FI without gzip is mainly for speed.
People use FI for good compactness without suffering a processing penalty as
with gzip.
> I'm asking, when they use FI+gzip as shown below to get that extra 15% in
space compared to gzip FI by itself, am I right that they lose a lot of the
speed advantage that FI gave them originally? I'm not saying this is bad.
I'm suggesting:
>
> FI: good speed, moderate compression
> gzip: very good compression, slow
> FI + gzip: slightly better compression than gzip, slightly slower
than gzip
As an indication, gzip time can add 30%-500% to serialization time. In our
measurements [fi serialization + gzip compression] is generally slower than
[text serialization] but faster than [text + gzip]. Then again, if your FI
doc returns high compactness your [fi + gzip] can be as fast as [text].
> Noah Mendelsohn
Alexander
