Rob Seaman said:
> Feather's encoding is a type of compression. GZIP won't buy you
> anything extra.
Actually, it might with longer tables. For example, LZW (as used by Unix
compress) can be further compressed using a Huffman-based compressor.
> I'll join the rising chorus that thinks it need
> not appear in every packet.
Phew.
> I'd also modify Feather encoding to delta backwards from the
> expiration time stamp.
Interesting idea.
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Received on Thu Jan 11 2007 - 07:30:46 PST