Re: Header Table and Static Table Indicies Switched

This was discussed in "Call for Consensus: Remove "reference set" from HPACK (to address #552)”. Greg had a bunch of data showing static first was better.

On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:

> Guessing I missed the discussion on this, but in the latest HPACK
> draft the static table was to lower indices than the header table
> instead of higher indices.
> 
> This now requires an extra byte (2 instead of 1) to index almost any
> name not in the static table.
> 
> Opened https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/578 to track.
> 

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat

Received on Friday, 1 August 2014 17:35:47 UTC