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Re: WebRTC and backpressure (how to stop reading?)

From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:13:17 +0100
Message-ID: <5334B08D.2060102@alvestrand.no>
To: public-webrtc@w3.org
On 03/27/2014 11:50 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 27 March 2014 12:35, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>> Besides, we've already accepted that the application can get data handed to
>> it in 1-Gbyte chunks. That camel was larger than not doing backpressure...
> That's fine for folks who have somewhere to put the Gbyte.  As I
> recall, we also decided that we would allow receivers to cap the size
> of messages.  Twice.
>
Yep, that's why I called it 1-Gbyte and not 1-Pbyte chunks (the 
websockets protocol once limited chunks to 2^24 bytes, I remember...)
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