[OSM-dev] Compression types in PBF Format

[Anthony]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Anthony wrote:
>
>> Not in an embedded system, which is where a small difference like 10%
>> is going to matter.
>
> Please elaborate? Either the memory is used for a block cache or for the
> program.

No idea.  If you say so, then I guess you're right.

>> 32 megs is a lot better than 900K, though.  900K is how much zlib uses,
>> right?
>
> I don't get your point here, what do you mean?

Well, I was referring to the block size for zlib, but after reading up
on it a bit it looks like the small dictionary and window sizes are
more constraining than the block size anyway.

Anyway, I'm probably completely wrong about this.  Sorry.