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Re: FYI: Tools to evaluate header compression algorithms

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 14 January 2013 11:47 UTC

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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)


On 10/01/2013, at 11:48 PM, Martin Nilsson <nilsson@opera.com> wrote:

> 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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