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Title: What is cheaper bandwidth or cpu cycles?
Post by: vite on September 25, 2014, 01:39:48 PM
Would you rather receive compressed data to safe bandwidth at the cost of extra cpu cycles?

or

Would you rather receive uncompressed data to reduce cpu cycles at the cost of bandwidth?


Title: Re: What is cheaper bandwidth or cpu cycles?
Post by: bluefirecorp on September 25, 2014, 01:44:49 PM
The former.

Uncompressing content actually isn't that CPU intensive compared to compressing. Of course, it really depends on the situation.