Re: FYI: Tools to evaluate header compression algorithms

[James M Snell <[e-mail]>]

Go here and look at the bohe directory as an example...

https://github.com/jasnell/compression-test/tree/master/compressor

Ignore the spdy3_dictionary.h file that's in there, it's not used.

- James


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Frédéric Kayser <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hello,
> there's something I don't get, I would like to try other compression
> algorithms, but those are written in plain old C or assembly,
> sample_exec_codec.py is in Python... how I am supposed to hook something in
> there?
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> Adding New Compression Algorithms
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> If you wish to implement a new codec, there are two easy approaches.
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> 1) Develop it in Python. New modules should be subdirectories of
> 'compressor', and should inherit from BaseProcessor there.
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> 2) Develop it in another language, and use the 'fork' module to execute it
> in a separate process. See 'sample_exec_codec.py' for an example of this;
> it can be run like this:
>
> ./compare_compressors.py -c fork="sample_exec_codec.py" file.har
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> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Mark Nottingham" <[e-mail]>
> À: "[e-mail] Group" <[e-mail]>
> Envoyé: Lundi 31 Décembre 2012 03:22:33
> Objet: FYI: Tools to evaluate header compression algorithms
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> As part of his implementation, Roberto created a test harness for
> comparing headers. With his help, I've forked that and refactored a bit --
>   https://github.com/http2/compression-test
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