Every DEFLATE compression block can either supply its own Huffman table or compress using a fixed table. You can emit a DEFLATE-compatible compression stream without ever emitting a custom Huffman table or depending on previous data. And you'll still do better than nothing for many types of data.<p>Given this, I wonder why HPACK invented a new compression scheme rather than just carefully using DEFLATE.
Looks like SLZ hit 1.0 back in April [1]. Has anyone used it in production? Are packaged binaries available to get it up and running quickly?<p>[1]: <a href="http://git.1wt.eu/web/libslz.git/" rel="nofollow">http://git.1wt.eu/web/libslz.git/</a>
Very interesting. This appears to do much better something I've been working on a PHP wrapper to do for a while now. I ended up currently opting out of compression as a whole and just using STORE zips to send multiple files at once without having to keep data in memory. This is absolutely worth looking into. It's been a long time since something on HN has gotten me this excited.