problem

Consistent Analysis compression is currently not toggle-able and on by default. This

• has performance implication on potato computers
• causes confusion when people use ConsistentAnalysisFormat.text and sees garbled output in text editor (as they assume text format output is directly openable by text editor, while they actually need to unzip it first).

expectation

• Offer a way to disable the compression
• Consider making the compression off by default (or at least off by default for ConsistentAnalysisFormat.text.

notes

Here was an instance of downstream zinc user asking why ConsistentAnalysisFormat.text yields garbled output

I'm having issues using the new ConsistentAnalysisStore in Mill. I tried to use ConsistentAnalysisStore.text in https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill/pull/4065/files#diff-d7eb4aebc8fc9a837dc90a5215cee479037fef11cc4071bf4a6242fc6baf2014R486, but the generated zinc.txt file still seems to be binary. Would you be able to take a look and see if I'm missing anything obvious?

(https://discord.com/channels/632150470000902164/635669047588945930/1313414992267182133)