- From: Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:39:30 -0500
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>, Frédéric Kayser <f.kayser@free.fr>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Roberto Peon <fenix@google.com>, Hervé Ruellan <herve.ruellan@crf.canon.fr>
+1 On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> wrote: >> >> 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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