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Re: [hybi] WS ABNF

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 16 February 2010 09:04 UTC

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Dave Cridland wrote:
> ...
> But the chances of this making a measurable difference are very slim, 
> whereas the perils of decoding a new integer representation seem 
> extraordinarily high, especially given that it's a nicely unbounded 
> integer. IMAP implementations used to have enough trouble when asked to 
> allocate 4G for a literal, after all, but at least I'm unaware of them 
> having decoding difficulty. OTOH, with 5 octets, I can now setup a frame 
> length of 32G, and I can't see anything suggesting that this is even a 
> bad idea, let alone illegal protocol.
> ...

It's not really new; something similar (or even the same thing?) is used 
in HTTP chunked encoding.

Best regards, Julian

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