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

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Thu, 05 August 2010 16:57 UTC

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> wrote:

> DEFLATE, for example, includes ways of transferring blocks of uncompressed
> data. Tweaking the compression strategy on the fly is perfectly reasonable.
>

I don't know of any implementation that allows you to include an
uncompressed block during compression -- zlib certainly doesn't, not to
mention Java APIs to it.  Requiring implementors to write their own
compression library seems problematic.

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google

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