Re: [hybi] Framing take IV

[Scott Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>   
>>> I agree. I can't see any benefit to fragmentation over a variable-size 
>>> length field for an initial version without multiplexing. If the 
>>> variable-size length field is well-designed, then in the common case 
>>> where the message size is small it will only cost one extra branch to 
>>> read the length. In the rare case where the message size is large, a 
>>> variable-size length is easier to deal with than reassembling 
>>> fragments, and easier on the sending side too.
>>>       
>> Some of us don't have infinite memory when sending messages.
>>     
>
> Why do you need infinite memory?
>   

Because we don't know the length of dynamically produced content until 
the dynamic process is complete. That's why HTTP added chunking.

-- Scott