Re: Header Compression - streaming proposal

• From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:47:41 -0700
• To: Gábor Molnár <gabor.molnar@sch.bme.hu>
• Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CABkgnnWshTMBc6v7jOgsreZ7wB7pK1ccnT_kYXbARJemD-GO4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 10 July 2013 00:53, Gábor Molnár <gabor.molnar@sch.bme.hu> wrote:
> I opened an issue on GitHub for this proposal with minor modification
> to the original text:
> https://github.com/http2/compression-spec/issues/11
>
> If I get more feedback, I will be happy to draft a PR as well.

The only feedback I have is that you could reclaim a bit from each of
the existing opcodes by doing this, which could produce a pretty big
increase in performance.

Starting the header block with a count (the number of index entries,
prefix size 0), could make this quite efficient.

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:48:14 UTC