Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Make using static table and Huffman encoding in QPACK opt-in (#3622)

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

To answer the question, I did `#ifdef` the Huffman functionality in h3zero and redid the test. Compiling on an Ubuntu 19 VM with Huffman defined:
```
$ gcc -Os -c -o h3zero.o h3zero.c && strip h3zero.o && wc -c h3zero.o
13680 h3zero.o
```
And with Huffman defined out:
```
$ gcc -Os -c -o h3zero.o h3zero.c && strip h3zero.o && wc -c h3zero.o
8640 h3zero.o
```
The cost of Huffman decoding support appears to be 5KB of code. The remaining 8.6K include static QPACK and the parsing of minimal H3 frames.

The `picohttp_ct` program is a test program. It links with the test framework, so the 685K size has to be taken with a grain of salt. To give an other data point, the DNS over QUIC program built with the picoquic library is around 300KB. If I take that as a minimum reference, the added cost of Huffman decoding would be less than 1.5% of the total. But of course everything is relative, and 

@lars has experience developing QUIC for tiny devices. Maybe he has an opinion on this.


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