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Re: [babel] mac-relaxed: window-based

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Tue, 31 May 2022 09:31 UTC

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On 31 May 2022 11:01:53 CEST, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:
>>>   1. either you reword everything so that the window is below the last
>>>      seen PC, i.e. it covers (lastPC - windowSize, lastPC]; or
>
>> Right, updated the text using your suggestion (1) and re-opened a pull
>> request on github.
>
>Thanks.
>
>If that's okay with you, I'm going to reorder your cases, so that the
>"normal" case (PC > lastPC) appears first, and so that your "window index"
>is always a positive value.

Sure.

>I also think that we should consider finding a term different than "window
>index", since we already have an "index" in the protocol.  (I wish I had
>called it the "Epoch" instead, but that ship has sailed.)

Window offset? Window position?

-Toke

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