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Old 02-05-2021, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by BigJohn
I would say the difference is a function of the time it takes to extract a short file vs the time to extract a short file.

What would be extracting a short file - or a longer one as I think you likely meant - and from where, BJ? And how 'short' is short? Given adequate bandwidth files are retrieved in minuscule fractions of a second, near-enough instantaneously.

Onward transmission and file opening is influenced by factors involving other equipments. That can result in noticeable delays and/or slow responses.

File sizes are usually expressed in kilobytes, megabytes etc. Simple text files are typically small unless they're hundreds of pages long. A posting of a few sentences will be in the order of a few kilobytes, minuscule in terms of server capacity. They're not long or short.

Images can be big files - a few megabytes isn't anything unusual. Lots of them might be a problem for a server whose capacity is stretched. Heavily formatted text files will be bigger than simple text ones but probably smaller than large image files.