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I'm able to follow the article right up to the point where the author talks about replacing streaming with dictionary compression. How does this work, exactly?

I'm able to follow the article right up to the point where the author talks about replacing streaming with dictionary compression. How does this work, exactly? Don't you still need the same number of back and forth messages, since the protocol doesn't change?

wmf 7y ago
Yes, the number of messages is the same. For small messages, per-message overhead may swamp the benefit of compression.