• thisbenzingring@wirebase.org
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        1 year ago

        Text data on a compressed drive is so small. You have a modern server and accessing text files in a compressed drive is not noticeable performance hit. The compression ratio is massive for text and markup language files

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          Yes, text doesn’t take up much space, but decades of text can easily take up a lot of space, especially when you track things like edits.

          Not to mention that this data isn’t in text files. It’s going to be in a database, so the number of records that need to be parsed will impact performance. How big that impact is depends on how they set the database up.