In this run we delivered 1.1 MB of real data using only 27.8 KB of network.

Same data, 42.1× less wire.

In Bob's terms: a server farm shipping a gigabyte of logs per hour now ships those logs as roughly 25 megabytes — same data, every byte arrives perfect. The internet stops carrying redundancy and starts carrying meaning.

Workload: a canonical log-shipping bench. Different workloads land at different ratios; the substrate carries any of them.

Headline numbers

Density vs raw TCP
42.1×
Density vs gzip
6.0×
Pacta42 wire bytes
27.8 KB
Verifies OK
20

Bytes on the wire per batch

Each line is the same data sent three ways. Lower means less network used. Cyan is Pacta42 — sits near the bottom because it's carrying meaning, not raw bytes.

030,13360,2660919raw TCPgzipPacta42batch indexbytes on wire

Density ratio (vs raw · vs gzip)

How many times less network Pacta42 used compared to the alternative. Higher means bigger savings.

0.0×29.0×57.9×Pacta42 vs rawPacta42 vs gzipbatch indexcompression ratio

Latency

How long each method took to deliver one batch. Typical (p50), bad case (p95), worst case (p99). All three modes are in the millisecond range — faster than blinking.

raw TCPp50 0.17ms · p95 0.35ms · p99 0.35msgzipp50 0.23ms · p95 0.41ms · p99 0.41msPacta42p50 3.21ms · p95 4.70ms · p99 4.70ms04.7 ms

Per-mode totals

Side-by-side view of the three transmission methods. Pacta42's row is the small one.

ModeBatches Total bytes Avg / batch p50 latency p95 latency Verifies OK
raw TCP201,197,84959,8920.170.3520
gzip20170,1178,5060.230.4120
Pacta422028,4201,4213.214.7020

Last 10 transmissions

Most recent first. "Verified" means the receiver checked the data byte-for-byte against what was sent.

BatchMode Raw Wire Ratio Latency (ms) Verified
19Pacta4259,8021,54938.6×3.67yes
19gzip59,8028,4727.1×0.23yes
19raw TCP59,80259,8071.0×0.18yes
18Pacta4259,8241,54938.6×3.49yes
18gzip59,8248,5177.0×0.22yes
18raw TCP59,82459,8291.0×0.16yes
17Pacta4259,8711,54938.7×3.59yes
17gzip59,8718,5467.0×0.23yes
17raw TCP59,87159,8761.0×0.17yes
16Pacta4259,7421,54938.6×3.41yes
Technical details (handshake, library epoch, salt fingerprint)
No handshake recorded in this session (library-mode was 'preload' — receiver already had the library).