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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Remove ack_delay_exponent TP (#2670)

MikkelFJ <notifications@github.com> Thu, 13 June 2019 06:12 UTC

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Maybe it is worth saving those bytes. But another argument not prominent in the discussion is the risk of getting the scale wrong since it applies to all paths and might be hardcoded in implementations that do not adapt to different networking environments. This is why I think the fp16 approach is better (with overhead slightly above a multiplication), but I can see why people dislike a non-standard algorithm.

Therefore the question is really if the bytes saved are worth the problems a bad scale might induce.

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