Re: Profile compression
Re: Profile compression
- Subject: Re: Profile compression
- From: email@hidden
- Date: 1 Mar 2006 08:49:40 -0000
- Encoding: 8bit
> In essence the "problem" we are trying to solve is "Its too slow to
> download the profiles from our DB and install them on *new* customer
> machines". We are looking at different streaming methods, dynamic
> downloading on demand, and also at compression. The compression not
> only has to make the profiles smaller, but it has to download and
> decompress at the originators end faster than it would have taken to
> download the profile uncompressed. I was wondering if anyone out
> there had an innovative solution.
It sounds like you have more of a software design problem than a compression problem. Nothing is going to compress an already miniscule file with little to no repetitive data in it very well; not only is RLE ineffective, but the headers that will invariably have to be added to the file will more than likely undo any size reduction that is accomplished, if not make it even bigger than it was to begin with.
Maintaining unique user records and providing customized content based on said records is in no way uncharted territory in the world of computing, and implementation of such a system should be a relatively trivial matter for an experienced software engineer. It will certainly take time and resources to code and test any from-scratch solution, but the basic paradigms are well-established and being employed by school children developing blogs and videogame statistics websites on a daily basis. Based on what you've described, you could probably have a web-based RPC server application that would perform as required up and running in a month or so.
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