RE: Choosing a header compression algorithm

[RUELLAN Herve <[e-mail]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: lundi 25 mars 2013 06:56
> To: RUELLAN Herve
> Cc: Roberto Peon; [e-mail] Group
> Subject: Re: Choosing a header compression algorithm
> 
> 
> On 23/03/2013, at 5:04 AM, RUELLAN Herve <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> 
> > I think it would be good to move this from the compressors to the
> streamifier. In addition, it would be interesting to look at a more realistic
> streamifier that could for example unshard hosts (expecting that HTTP/2.0
> will remove the sharding currently done by server developers).
> 
> Right now, it combines all requests to the same TLD (according to the Public
> Suffix List) into a single "connection." Do you have a suggestion for how to do
> it better?

I think this should provide some "realistic" results as a starting point. Depending on what we want to measure, we may want to refine this a bit.

Hervé.

> I've just pushed a quick and dirty fix to use a new instance of each
> compressor for each connection; the results are pretty even between
> headerdiff and delta2, with a small increase in each:
> 
> * TOTAL: 5948 req messages
>                                        size  time | ratio min   max   std
>                         http1     3,460,925  0.18 | 1.00  1.00  1.00  0.00
>   delta2 (max_byte_size=4096)       707,901 11.87 | 0.20  0.03  0.83  0.15
>      headerdiff (buffer=4096)       960,106  1.65 | 0.28  0.01  0.96  0.23
> 
> * TOTAL: 5948 res messages
>                                        size  time | ratio min   max   std
>                         http1     2,186,162  0.28 | 1.00  1.00  1.00  0.00
>   delta2 (max_byte_size=4096)       622,837 12.86 | 0.28  0.02  1.22  0.13
>      headerdiff (buffer=4096)       596,290  3.65 | 0.27  0.02  0.92  0.18
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
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