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Re: [hybi] Is it important to know frame length at the start of frame? (was: Re: Discontinuation of mux ...)

Peter Thorson <webmaster@zaphoyd.com> Wed, 12 February 2014 16:19 UTC

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It doesn’t. Multiple layers of fixed length framing don’t conceptually affect this sort of memory management. It does make the whole operation more complicated though.

On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:09, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why does it matter if a frame (of unknown size) is composed of
> fragments (of known sizes), w.r.t. memory management?

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