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mort96yesterday at 9:30 AM1 replyview on HN

How much ongoing development effort do you think goes into, say, something like a gzip encoder?


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yxhuvudyesterday at 9:48 PM

A gzip encoder has no business deciding whether a socket should wait to fill up packets, however. The list of relevant applications and libraries gets a lot shorter with that restriction.