Re: Straw Poll: Restore Header Table and Static Table Indices

[Amos Jeffries <[e-mail]>]

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On 15/10/2014 6:11 p.m., Adrian Cole wrote:
>> If an argument can be made that 2 byte encodings are still too
>> large for dynamic headers, then instead of flipping back let's
>> investigate how the 1 byte slots can be shared between static and
>> dynamic.
> FWIW, I'm happy to implement an alternate approach, if one comes
> out. Thanks, Greg.
> 

Alternative approach has already been proposed. That the first bit of
the index is used as a flag to indicate static or dynamic table for
the remaning 7+ bits.

That not only puts both on an even bias, but expands the range of
values getting 1-byte encodings in either table and removes the need
for the math complexity people are disliking.

1 stone, 3 birds.


(The paranoid in me can only think that it is being repeatedly
rejected despite evidence of its usefulness because of who proposed it.)

Amos

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