Re: Type codecs within hpack from Martin Thomson on 2013-08-23 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:46:00 -0700
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnWp2rficGjN9L1aah=Pj07yWnZ7wgZB97n8s5d+gxmu2A@mail.gmail.com>

On 23 August 2013 09:00, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. UTF-8
> 2. Legacy
> 3. Opaque
> 4. Integer
> 5. Timestamp

With only 5 values, you could regain 1 bit on three of those values,
or 2 bits on one.

0, 100, 101, 110, 111 or 00, 01, 10, 110, 111

The first option might work well if you think that Legacy is going to
be very common.  Otherwise you could split UTF-8/Legacy/Opaque three
ways.

Received on Friday, 23 August 2013 21:46:27 UTC