Re: timestamps encoding

On 2014年10月22日 04:07:59 +0200, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> 
wrote:
>
> Huffman encoding applies only to String literals. This numeric is an
> Integer Literal byte sequence.
Ah, of course. That flips the size advantage to something like 5 bytes vs 
9 bytes in worst case.
>
> Also, if you are going to signal a binary state (delta vs absolute
> time) use a 1-bit flag, built into the value type code this wastes no
> space.
I wasn't actually thinking about encoding here, but different semantics, 
like the Retry-After header which both has a date and number as possible 
values, with different interpretations.
/Martin Nilsson
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