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Paratima
09-18-2002, 12:41 PM
We bugged Howard about stats compression over at the DF forum and he threw it back to us (ALL DFers, not just Free-DC).
Well it already does upload minimal info per structure - about 100 bytes per structure, and that then compressed with bzip. Can't make it any smaller really unless it is left out altogether. We'll try to make the next protein a little bigger and 'slower' and maybe that will reduce your bandwidth usage in the mean time.

Alternatively, I could rewrite it I suppose to only upload the minimal data thats actually stored, which would drastically reduce the upload time but make it easier for some people to cheat. Note when I say 'easy' you'd still have to go to some considerable effort as it is by no means trivial, but there's no 1024-bit RSA encryption here, that's all. If the majority of stats-mongers would be comfortable with such a change I could probably go ahead and do that at the next protein changeover. (...emphasis added)So, what's your pleasure? Speak up! :)