Re: FYI: Tools to evaluate header compression algorithms

"Martin Nilsson" <nilsson@opera.com> Thu, 10 January 2013 12:51 UTC

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On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:57:01 +0100, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Quick follow-up:
>
> I posted more about this here:
>   http://www.mnot.net/blog/2013/01/04/http2_header_compression
>
> In particular, we have graphs for all of the HAR samples I took earlier:
>   http://http2.github.com/http_samples/mnot/
>

One minor issue is that you are comparing both encoding and compression at  
the same time. I.e. you could have a (http, spdy) x (uncompressed, delta,  
delta-huffman, gzip) result matrix.

/Martin Nilsson

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