On 2010-02-09 3:55 PM, Bryan Oakley wrote:

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> I don't mean to sound preachy, but it sounds like you're making a
> beginners mistake of premature optimization. Don't worry about
> compression until it actually proves to be a problem. Otherwise you'll
> spend way too much time on something that just doesn't matter.

....comments appreciated, and I will try to be more precise next
time...

Yes you're right that in this day, space is cheap & abundant,
but that is not always the case. I'm developing this software
to be run on an old, slow, Solaris networked server where space
is not as abundant and cpu speed is not blazing. This, I have
no control over. The text widget will be used to link a
user comment to a record in a db, of which there may be 10's
of 000's of records so Im trying to be efficient given my
constraints. I will take the posted comments into
consideration. Thanks.

Norm [GG]