gzip
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gzip
- Many servers support gzip as a method for compressing file sizes, which helps optimize web performance.
Examples
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Once you realize it's just a big graph, glued together with SHA1 and gzip, and all the functions are just different methods of mutating the graph, it seems much simpler.
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By utilizing gzip, we can significantly decrease the amount of data transmitted over the network for our web applications.
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Same goes for the GZIP test.
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Gzip everything.
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However, unlike ZIP, gzip is not an archiving format, so can only compress a single file.
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If the greatest possible compression were the goal, then all that would be needed to write succinct programs would be to run the final program through a compression program like gzip.
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Some of the files in the documents directory may be decoded zip, gzip, and tar files extracted from other email messages.
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The web developer enabled gzip compression to reduce the size of the website's files and improve loading speed.
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Etymology
Gzip comes from the free software name GNU plus the familiar word zip, which means 'to compress' or 'to close'. So gzip is literally 'GNU's zip' and is the name of a program and file format used to make files smaller.