Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-05 Thread Toad
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:14:44PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:48:13AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > > > Every routed request already has a UniqueID; why would we make up a > > > new ID system just for QRs? Currently, QRs are b

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Edgar Friendly
Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:48:13AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > > Every routed request already has a UniqueID; why would we make up a > > new ID system just for QRs? Currently, QRs are between 80 and 100 > > bytes, I plan on having them down to 12 bytes. Drop

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Edgar Friendly
Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > > Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Make sure it's reasonably easy to extend it... there will only be a few > > > possible fields on a given message, but there may be new messages etc. >

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Toad
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:48:13AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Ken Corson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Edgar Friendly wrote: > > > > Okay, this is only regarding Q's and QR's , but what if the sending > > node included a 2 or 4 byte QueryID value ? This would be a simple > > counter, but

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Toad
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Make sure it's reasonably easy to extend it... there will only be a few > > possible fields on a given message, but there may be new messages etc. > > So far we have less than 50 messages (I t

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Edgar Friendly
Ken Corson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Edgar Friendly wrote: > > Okay, this is only regarding Q's and QR's , but what if the sending > node included a 2 or 4 byte QueryID value ? This would be a simple > counter, but the value would be unique between that pair of peers. > Then, when it came tim

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Edgar Friendly
Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make sure it's reasonably easy to extend it... there will only be a few > possible fields on a given message, but there may be new messages etc. So far we have less than 50 messages (I think it's around 25 or so, but I'll estimate high to prove my point). I'm a

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Corson
Edgar Friendly wrote: Zlatin Balevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We are often sending 10s of messages in a single packet; most of these messages are very similar (i.e. QRs). While each message in itself isn't well compressible because of the nature of the strings it contains, a packet with 20 mes

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-03 Thread Toad
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:55:38PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Zlatin Balevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We are often sending 10s of messages in a single packet; most of these > > messages are very similar (i.e. QRs). While each message in itself > > isn't well compressible because of

Re: [freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-02 Thread Edgar Friendly
Zlatin Balevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are often sending 10s of messages in a single packet; most of these > messages are very similar (i.e. QRs). While each message in itself > isn't well compressible because of the nature of the strings it > contains, a packet with 20 messages could b

[freenet-dev] packet-level compression

2003-11-01 Thread Zlatin Balevsky
We are often sending 10s of messages in a single packet; most of these messages are very similar (i.e. QRs). While each message in itself isn't well compressible because of the nature of the strings it contains, a packet with 20 messages could be compressed much better, resulting in reduced ba