Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-...
by popey456963 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:47PM
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100MB? Assuming they're using GZIP, that's normally a 10% compression ratio, leading to about 1GB of actual data. Let's assume this data is stored as 8 bits, that's about one hundred million characters of code! Maybe what they're doing is downloading the entirety of Windows XP (roughly a gig in size), running it in JavaScript and then rendering the page in Internet Explorer within their version of XP.
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