Re: Reasons to not use huffman encoding?

and of course

4) the huffman encoded string is larger than the original


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 1/02/2014 6:13 a.m., Adrian Cole wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > HPACK allows the sender to decide whether or not to encode with huffman.
> >  When, in your opinion, would the sender choose not to?
> >
>
> 1) debugging some other part of the protocol.
>
> 2) sender device wants to save on CPU and has lots of bandwidth available.
>
> 3) using some other future encoding that is better than huffman.
>
> Amos
>
>