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

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Thu, 17 January 2019 02:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] consider making the varint encoding unique (#2299)
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At this stage, I think that one objection is sufficient.  The advantage of a minimal encoding is in wire efficiency.  Something that can be achieved with the current scheme, and not guaranteed with the proposed one (because there are ample ways in which to suboptimally encode packets, PADDING notwithstanding).

Add the unproven performance characteristics, and I'm not seeing much incentive to change anything.

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