Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] 3+ and 4+ in the QPACK wire format are complex and inefficient (#3561)

afrind <notifications@github.com> Tue, 31 March 2020 18:23 UTC

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I concur with the other responders here.  

1. Sharing code with HPACK is a non-goal 
2. The instructions as specified do save some bytes
3. It's not that complex to add a string encoding function that takes a prefix for the length 
4. Most of all, we shouldn't be making design changes this late

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