deflate blob chunks

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/peers.md b/docs/peers.md
index a6b69b4..e098b01 100644
--- a/docs/peers.md
+++ b/docs/peers.md
@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ sent: it would be all or nothing, sent again whole after a lost copy, and on a s
 may not arrive within the transport's delivery limit (Mycelium's five minutes). The sender takes it back and offers a
 *delta* instead: the changes in the history of its heads but not of the peer's (as far
 as it knows them; of those, the ones it holds, and for any it lacks, the heads they
-share). The peer fetches them as a blob, in chunks, from the sender and any other peer
-holding both sets of heads (every such peer produces the same bytes), loads them,
+share). The peer fetches them as a blob, in chunks (each deflated where that makes it
+at least a tenth smaller), from the sender and any other peer holding both sets of
+heads (every such peer produces the same bytes), loads them,
 and syncs on; the rest goes in ordinary messages. Until the peer answers, the sender
 sends it nothing; if the answer is overdue, it offers again (the same offer, without
 generating the message again, while neither side's heads moved). This is how a join without a