Re: Proposal: New Frame Size Text (was: Re: Design Issue: Frame Size Items)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sat, 11 May 2013 03:03 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
To: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
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On 10 May 2013 18:30, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
> The memory needed for header interpretation will, for a decent
> implementation, be at worst the sum of the size of the compression context
> and the size of the receive buffer-- it will not expand once decompressed
> unless a lot of useless copying is being done.

I was going to say the same thing until I realized that most APIs will
be forced to decode Huffman-encoded strings to present.  Some
implementations might avoid this entirely, others might defer
decompression, or something along those lines, but there is probably
going to be at least some exposure to the decompressed data.