Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values

["Adrien W. de Croy" <[e-mail]>]

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From: "Willy Tarreau" <[e-mail]>
>On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:12:32PM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote:
>>  On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:33:41 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>  >Also, processing it is
>>  >particularly inefficient as you have to parse each and every byte to 
>>find
>>  >a length, making string comparisons quite slow.
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>>  You don't need to know the length in characters to compare strings. 
>>Just
>>  comparing byte on byte works fine.
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>This is exactly what you want to avoid when comparing with lots of 
>strings.
>It's generally more efficient to first compare lengths, then byte per 
>byte
>only if lengths match.

only if you don't have to count bytes to get the length.  IF you need to 
do that, then byte-by-byte is more efficient.

I guess we're talking about length-prefixed data in this context though 
so it would be an available optimisation.

Adrien

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