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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] consider making the varint encoding unique (#2299)

Marten Seemann <notifications@github.com> Sun, 06 January 2019 11:09 UTC

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Sure. Don't do that! It's definitely possible to use varints everywhere (I have a (roughly) draft-17 compliant implementation, I'm always using the shortest possible varint encoding, and I don't need to memmove anywhere in order to achieve that).

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