On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:26:20AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > We checked compression, and it just isn't worth it. When you compress
> > 100–200 bytes, the output might be a tiny bit smaller, but then the
> > compression alg header is added it becomes a wash. And we lose an important
> > properties of simplicity and ability to read this in a text dump without
> > further processing. It just isn't worth it.
>
> Example:
> $ cat /tmp/payload
> {"type":"rpm","name":"systemd","version":"249.4-1.fc35","architecture":"x86_64","osCpe":"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:35"}
> $ for c in zstd gzip xz; do $c -k /tmp/payload; done
> $ ls -l /tmp/f*
> 122 /tmp/f
> 125 /tmp/f.gz
> 172 /tmp/f.xz
> 120 /tmp/f.zst
But a binary representation of that could strip it down into ~50%.
Jakub
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