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Re: [hybi] Framing take IV [why fragment]

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Thu, 05 August 2010 15:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Framing take IV [why fragment]
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On Thu Aug  5 16:26:23 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Dave Cridland wrote:
>> On Wed Aug  4 15:33:13 2010, Patrick McManus wrote:
>> 
>>> Benefits of streaming:
>>> 
>>> * Reduced memory consumption on the sender in cases where the  
>>> message is
>>> being "passed through". A service that does a large database  
>>> query is a
>>> good example here - the results can be passed back as they are  
>>> found
>>> even before you know how many there are.
>>> 
>>> 
>> No, because the receiver cnnot process portions of messages - at  
>> least with our current API. And you can achieve this behaviour by  
>> sending multiple messages anyway.
> 
> Of course it can. Browser writers are fully capable of buffering  
> the frames until the message is complete and then giving the  
> complete string to the application.
> 
> 
Right, giving no benefit to the application, which was my point.


> The browser developers never complained about the sentinel framing  
> and it has the exact same buffering requirement.

I'm not saying it doesn't. :-)

I am saying that this means this is not a good argument for chunking.

Dave.
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