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		OskarS on March 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python... Not if you're serving things dynamically from a web server, then it happens on the fly, every request.

luckystarr on March 15, 2021 | [–]

True. But there you can go into optimizations like parallelization of the compression and building an optimized dictionary upfront once to make the process faster.

pmarreck on March 15, 2021 | [–]

Cache by the ETag and/or If-Modified-Since headers, then

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