- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 18:01:10 +0200
- To: David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com>
- Cc: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>, Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Simone Bordet <simone.bordet@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:12:07PM +0800, David Krauss wrote: > > On 2014?05?29, at 11:00 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> wrote: > > > I do appreciate your efforts. But 100 instructions per byte is at least one order of magnitude more instructions than a literal copy of those bytes requires... For 16k worth of header data that translates into 1.6 million instructions executed just for one header frame - fairly significant for an embedded processor? > > If the MCU sees more than a hundred Huffman-encoded bytes per stream, you?re Doing It Wrong. > > There are plenty of other ways for a malicious party to crash a printer. 1.6 > million instructions is still only a blink of an eye even for a small MCU. Well, 1.6M instructions for a request is huge, whatever the processor size. That would basically limit a 3 GHz CPU to 2000 requests/s when it can currently do 300000 in http/1.1. I'm starting to be really worried... Willy
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