Re: [hybi] hum #3: Message
Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org> Thu, 05 August 2010 18:46 UTC
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On 8/5/10 11:42 AM, John Tamplin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch > <mailto:ian@hixie.ch>> wrote: > > When transfering large blocks of data, chunking is quite > inefficient. This > means that we'd need to make sure that the fixed width field is at > least > long enough to handle large chunks of data. > > At terabit Ethernet speeds, 32 bits is not enough since you could > transfer > that much in mere seconds, so presumably we'll use 64 bits. > > Do we really want a length that long? > > > Let's assume the most recent proposal, which is a 4-byte header > including a 2-byte length field. So, if you need to send a message of > 2^32 bytes, it will be sent as a 65538 frames, incurring an overhead > of 262152 bytes for header overhead, or a total of 4295229448 bytes > with .0006% overhead over the payload data. It is true that this is > higher overhead than a single large frame with a variable-length > length field, but it hardly rises to "quite inefficient". Also, other > reasons have been given for why you don't want to send a single frame > that long anyway, and for why you don't want to have to keep an > arbitrarily large buffer in the sender just so you can count the bytes > of the entire message before you send it. +1 -Doug
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