Re: delta encoding and state management

Can you support that with data? The data I've seen thusfar strongly
disproves that assertion...

-=R


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>wrote:

> Note that in general compression won't do better than minimal
> encodings of header names and values.  I say "in general" because, as
> we saw in the minimal date/time discussion, we can sometimes further
> compress relative to some state (e.g., normalizing time to a newer
> epoch), but even so, generic compression algorithms won't figure out
> such things.
>
> Therefore it seems best to focus on minimal encodings.
>
>