Re: #540: "jumbo" frames

In message <CAP+FsNcwTBLjn+CV0gnrpG_87U=xetOJsqoyFF5Ze+w_Ucwfpg@mail.gmail.com>
, Roberto Peon writes:

>Look at this from a hardware engineer's perspective. This bit changes how
>you must structure hardware buffers in order to parse things properly.
>This requires far more complexity for a hardware implementation, and would
>reduce the chance that we get acceleration in HW for HTTP2.

But the elimination of CONTINUATION would more than offset that minor
bit of complexity.


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Received on Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:21:06 UTC