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third-person singular simple present gzips, present participle gzipping, simple past and past participle gzipped
(transitive, computing) To compress using the gzip program. quotations examples
One way to deal with this issue is to add the compress command, which gzips the old logs as they are rotated.
2000, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, General Linux I: exam prep
Image and PDF files should not be gzipped because they are already compressed. Trying to gzip them not only wastes CPU resources, it can also potentially increase file sizes.
2007, Steve Souders, High performance web sites: essential knowledge for frontend engineers, page 30
Therefore, using the YUI Compressor in combination with gzipping always gives the best results.
2010, Nicholas C. Zakas, High Performance JavaScript, page 171