• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    as in time wasted transferring a highly compressible file that you didn’t bother compressing first?

    it’s only a waste of time when the file format is already compressed.

    • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Unless you measure your baud in dial up modem, it often can take longer to compress / transport / uncompress than just transfer directly.