Does anyone have any experience in using compression on their cached data? I understand that stackoverflow is internally using this method.
What are the pros and cons?
And are there any gotchyas?
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Scott Hanselman just created a Session wrapper class that can zip items before putting them into your cache/session/whatever. You may want to take a look!
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode35ZipCompressingASPNETSessionAndCacheState.aspx