Re: Straw Poll: Restore Header Table and Static Table Indices

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In message <CAHzwyDuuN=-DyGiWAfttwq7O_zUGOE=7kVf5J=qu6i_-A9ezfg@mail.gmail.com>
, Adrian Cole writes:
>> If an argument can be made that 2 byte encodings are still too large for
>> dynamic headers, then instead
>> of flipping back let's investigate how the 1 byte slots can be shared
>> between static and dynamic.
>FWIW, I'm happy to implement an alternate approach, if one comes out.
>Thanks, Greg.

Seriously...

If we are that worried about compression-ratio, we should compress
Date: and other timestamp headers to a 32 bit integer.

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Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 05:32:55 UTC