Re:Engineering for Slow Internet
by floam on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:28PM
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Brotli is a better example, as it was literally purpose made for HTML/CSS/JS. It is now supported basically everywhere for HTTP compression, and uses a huge custom dictionary (about 120KB) that was trained on simulated web traffic.
You can even swap in your own shared dictionary with a HTTP header, but trying to make your own dictionary specific to your content is a fool’s errand, you’ll never amortize the cost in total bits.
What you CAN do with shared dictionaries though, is delta updates.
You can even swap in your own shared dictionary with a HTTP header, but trying to make your own dictionary specific to your content is a fool’s errand, you’ll never amortize the cost in total bits.
What you CAN do with shared dictionaries though, is delta updates.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/shared-dictionary-compress... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615198