`metadata.bin` should be compressed.

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`metadata.bin` should be compressed. #96

Closed xkszltl closed 6 months ago

xkszltl commented 6 months ago

Compression with xz -kevT0 metadata.bin shows a compression ratio of ~0.52. This is significant enough to reduce this 1GB file to 0.5GB, a massive save in egress cost and download time.

xkszltl commented 6 months ago

Alternative options:

gzip -9kv metadata.bin: ~0.56
zest --progress -19 -k -T0 metadata.bin: ~0.5

akim-bow commented 6 months ago

I agree with your proposal, that definitely would be nice. But keeping in mind that airdrop has started some time ago and many people did the claiming already, the efforts won't worth it. So now it is not planned, bugs and issues are priorities.