All changes but huffman encoding integrated + a question

Just wanted to let people know that the github version of the compression
spec includes all issues but huffman encoding (Herve and Jeff-- thanks)!

I believe there is a potential ambiguity though, which I'm not sure if
people realize or care about (and so asking here before potentially
throwing mud in clear water)...

When adding a new header to the header table, one must first evict entries.
When using the indexed-name literal header representation, it is possible
that one may be evicting the entry that contains the name which the new
addition would need (and which needed to be examined in order to determine
the amount of space to free up in the first place).

There are two obvious resolutions:
1) Require that the name be kept in these circumstances (possibly by
copying somewhere (ideally into the end of the buffer)). If the storage for
the header table was a ring buffer, one would simply increment the '0'
index without copying.
This is my preference.

2) Make this illegal; This makes the encoder more complex as the encoder
must attempt to do this encoding and then check to see if actually fit
every time it does this kind of header representation.


What do people think?

-=R

Received on Wednesday, 16 October 2013 02:25:55 UTC