Frédéric, Certainly looks interesting, although IMHO all of this focus on compression for HTTP/2.0 is premature - yes, we can reduce the size of the request/response headers even more, but once you get past optimizing the initial request/response (initial page load time) any further gains are just "nice to have". Better to have a simpler HTTP/2.0 that achieves the chartered goals than to create a much harder to implement HTTP/2.0 that offers only a modest improvement in perceived performance/responsiveness. And IMHO adding Huffman or FSE falls into the "harder to implement for a modest improvement" category. On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Frédéric Kayser <f.kayser@free.fr> wrote: > Hi, > FSE (Finite State Entropy) is a brand new entropy coder backed by Yann Collet (the guy behind LZ4) based on ANS (Asymmetric Numeral System), it could eventually be used as a interesting drop-in replacement for the Huffman encoder found in HPACK since it claims compression rates closer to arithmetic coding and faster processing than Huffman. > More informations and code over there: > http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2013/12/finite-state-entropy-new-breed-of.html > > Best regards. > -- > Frédéric Kayser _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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