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		chrisbolt on Feb 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster PHP fo shizzle memcache clients already support client-side compression, which compresses the data before it goes over the network. It wouldn't make sense to move that to the server. I'm quite sure they're already doing compression.

cmallen on Feb 6, 2010 [–]

It would certainly make sense to do compression while it's stored server-side in RAM if they're RAM capacity limited.

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