On: Facebook announces SPDY support

[amethyst]

> "SPDY's header compression is a good, general-purpose solution, and gzip is a good starting point, but we would prefer to see a more lightweight compression algorithm for the HTTP/2.0 standard."

What's more lightweight than gzip? DEFLATE?

[reacocard → amethyst]

Snappy is faster than gzip/zlib:

  "For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy
  is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the 
  resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% 
  bigger."

https://code.google.com/p/snappy/