Re: gzip/deflate compression/encoding

"Adam M. Costello" <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:19:04 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

I wrote:

> You might want to forbid blocks from straddling line breaks, so that
> a non-validating decoder can eliminate a compare-and-branch operation
> from the processing of every byte.

That's not as easy as I thought, because the last block has no choice
but to have a line break appear before the byte counter reaches 84.

AMC