[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PATCH: network i/o

[Lauri Tarkkala <ltarkkal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:13:28AM -0400, Jed Davis wrote:
> --On Monday, 4 September 2000 15:44 +1100 David Pfitzner 
> <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > - I found it a bit confusing that game.net_compress_level is named so
> > similarly to game.save_compress_level when actually the 'levels' are
> > quite different: latter is "compression level/quality" 1 to 9 (or 0
> > for off), while former is an enum of whether compression is allowed
> > and/or required for clients.  Didn't change though.
> >
> So maybe game.net_compress_level should be the quality/speed tradeoff of 
> the network compression from 1..9 (or 0 for off), which would a more 
> intuitive use for the name, and something like game.net_compress_policy 
> could be the never-compress/compress-if-possible/always-compress selector. 
> Or, if the two compression levels are to be the same, rename them/it to 
> something like game.compress_level.

Currently the network traffic is compressed always using level 9. Whether
this is wise or not I do not know. The assumption is that the blocks
to be compressed are so small, that the time spent compressing 
is negligible compared to network latency.

Lauri

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