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A comment on Ask HN: LZ4 was not added as an optional compressor in HTTP/2, why gzip only?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: LZ4 was not added as an optional compressor in HT... by DiabloD3 on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:03AM (#9503801)
Yes it does, but does it cost more than the CPU power used by gzip vs the memory access cost of lz4? I suspect the CPU cost is more by at least a magnitude (although I can't measure it, but I bet Google has frameworks for Android to).
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