I think the problem with that analysis is that it ignores the gzip compression / decompression time. Also, that file is so uniform that it probably presents a best-case for gzip compression.
It seems unlikely to me that the compression/decompression time would outweigh the time to transmit 382 extra KB of data, but I suppose it depends on the application and how valuable computation time is on the server side.
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I think the problem with that analysis is that it ignores the gzip compression / decompression time. Also, that file is so uniform that it probably presents a best-case for gzip compression.
It seems unlikely to me that the compression/decompression time would outweigh the time to transmit 382 extra KB of data, but I suppose it depends on the application and how valuable computation time is on the server side.