Re: FYI: Tools to evaluate header compression algorithms

James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Mon, 14 January 2013 15:00 UTC

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From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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What would be helpful is the ability to define multiple compression runs
per compressor subdirectory... But the current design works fine too.
Pretty straightforward really.
On Jan 14, 2013 3:47 AM, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Perhaps, but they're not really easy to disentangle; if people are
> interested in the different combinations, they can easily factor the
> compressor code to cover the space (as we're already starting to see with
> James' work).
>
> Cheers,
>
> (of course, if you want to tackle this, a pull request would be welcome)
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> On 10/01/2013, at 11:48 PM, Martin Nilsson <nilsson@opera.com> wrote:
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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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