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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers 
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Garrett Wollman writes:
 > <<On Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:47:10 +0100, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> said:
 > 
 > > predictor-1 compression is so far superior to what's provided by
 > > pppd that I can't see any reason to use anything else now.
 > 
 > Unless you actually care about latency or jitter, which some users
 > definitely will.
 > 
 > -GAWollman
 > 
Actually, packet-by-packet compression that predictor-1 does improve
both your latency and lessen your jitter, specially when compared to
letting the modem mess with your data (which it does not understand
a bit about). The latency is usually about halved (with regular HTTP or
telnet data) and jitter is minimized, specially on low-speed links.

Pete