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Re: Alternative Header Compression Update..

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 11 July 2013 17:54 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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On 11 July 2013 10:32, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, looking at Indexed references currently, the 256-entry table
> means that every index position can be represented using a single
> octet. If we represent each entry separately that means we would end
> up always using two bytes to represent index positions > 127.

That's not valuable information until I know the typical table size
that I might like to maintain.  127 actually seems like a pretty big
number to me.

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