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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 1, 2013 10:19 UTC (Fri) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695)
In reply to: Google releases a better compression algorithm by rsidd
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I can imagine an offload thread in a caching reverse proxy that would recompress long living objects. Might be doable with a varnish vmod .


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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 1, 2013 13:49 UTC (Fri) by huayra (subscriber, #58915) [Link]

It should be possible, but it would be more interesting doing it in Varnish itself.

CSS and JS minification on a do_minify has been done before, using the same code logic and strategy used for the do_gzip compression support (even keeping the compressed ESI goodness). So replacing gzip or adding this new library and keep gunzip for decompression, could be an idea.

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