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Re: Preparing a new draft...
"Michael Young" <mwy-opgp97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Derek Atkins asked:
> > Have you looked into why it is faster?
>
> A partial-body encoding requires a power-of-two sized buffer be
> repeatedly filled (completely, or until end-of-input), and then copied
> to the output stream. An indeterminate encoding has no length
> information whatsoever, and so requires no buffering or copying.
In conjunction with compression, the claim that this affects
performance is a bit peculiar because compression itself typically
requires such buffering, and adds much more overhead anyway.
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