Divecomputer-reading from Mobile devices (Was: Divemate Fusion)

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sat Apr 9 17:20:00 PDT 2016


On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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> As expected, the individual dives run roughly 4k per hour dive time. This is with the libdivecomputer default XML output (to make my life easier I just used dctool for the download). I think our XML for example is much denser... so I think the amount of data will be manageable.

I'm not sure that we're _much_ denser, but yeah, we should be a bit better.

It might still be a good idea to just eventually compress the data
with zlib or something fairly trivial like that, but that's just a
small tweak on top of whatever protocol..

            Linus


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