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

[Scott Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

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.

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

-- Scott