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Diffstat (limited to 'vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go b/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go index ae1ebe4bf..f91dcfa16 100644 --- a/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go +++ b/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go @@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ const ( // The examples seem to indicate that it is. DefaultQValue = 1.0 - // DefaultMinSize defines the minimum size to reach to enable compression. - // It's 512 bytes. - DefaultMinSize = 512 + // 1500 bytes is the MTU size for the internet since that is the largest size allowed at the network layer. + // If you take a file that is 1300 bytes and compress it to 800 bytes, it’s still transmitted in that same 1500 byte packet regardless, so you’ve gained nothing. + // That being the case, you should restrict the gzip compression to files with a size greater than a single packet, 1400 bytes (1.4KB) is a safe value. + DefaultMinSize = 1400 ) // gzipWriterPools stores a sync.Pool for each compression level for reuse of |