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Re: [hybi] Frame size

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Mon, 19 April 2010 00:23 UTC

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From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Frame size
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Mike Belshe wrote:
> >
> > N years from now (for some value of N) people will be saying the same 
> > about 32 bits. That's why I used a packed integer instead of a 
> > fixed-width integer to specify lengths.
> 
> Of course, agree.  And despite where 32bits has failed us in history 
> previously, I still think this is far enough out that we'll be able to 
> upgrade by then.

Sounds like Y2K reasoning. :-)


> If you think N is sufficiently small for 32bits, we should use 64bits, 
> would that make N sufficiently far away? :-)

Reserving more than four bytes every time just seems like a lot of wasted 
bytes. Not that they're expensive or anything, but most of these frames 
are going to be only a few bytes, so it just seems silly to be padding 
everything full of zeros.

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