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Compression vs. TCP | 
 
- For HTML/XML, gzip/deflate is much better than modem builtin compression
 - Compression reduces the length of the TCP session
 - Compression
- Clients can request embedded objects sooner, and more embedded objects/packet; you can get TCP running faster, sooner
 - Scales up faster than savings in bytes on high speed network
 - Interacts with TCP slow start; since more URI's in first packet, you can fill more packets in return requests