On 17 May 2016, at 6:43 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> Wondering what other contributors are thinking on this topic. > > We have a number of changes in the ABNF grammar between > RFC2616 and RFC7230..7235. Do we want trunk 2.6/3.0 to be > an entirely RFC723x generation server, and drop all support for > RFC2616? > > Do we want to backport these changes to 2.4.x? If so, what > mechanism do we want to toggle the behavior of the server > between 2616 and 7230..7235? > > We can presume a small performance hit in any conditional > operation, especially when those decisions apply to tight parsing > loop. Toggling between two different parser implementations would > probably be a bit more efficient than conditionals within a parser > itself. Can you give some examples to get a sense of the extent of this? Regards, Graham —
