> I don't know that you would ever want to pay the memory hit that it would take to store the entire network in memory just to decompress images or video, nor the performance hit the decompression takes.
The big memory load wouldn't neccesarily be a problem for the likes of Youtube and Netflix - they could just have dedicated machines which do nothing else but decoding. The performance penalty could be a killer though.
The big memory load wouldn't neccesarily be a problem for the likes of Youtube and Netflix - they could just have dedicated machines which do nothing else but decoding. The performance penalty could be a killer though.