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| author | Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net> | 2015-10-29 09:40:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net> | 2015-10-29 09:40:41 -0700 |
| commit | 185cb9eadaafa5098b2c3ef9e4195350e2dc05fa (patch) | |
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Define the maximum number of bytes transforms may add to a word
* This value is useful in implementing the decoder since we can know
ahead-of-time what size buffer is needed to contain the output of a
transformed word.
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diff --git a/docs/draft-alakuijala-brotli-07.nroff b/docs/draft-alakuijala-brotli-07.nroff index 0e2b288..493d59d 100644 --- a/docs/draft-alakuijala-brotli-07.nroff +++ b/docs/draft-alakuijala-brotli-07.nroff @@ -1387,6 +1387,11 @@ Note that the OmitFirst8 elementary transform is not used in the list of transformations. The strings in Appendix B. are in C string format with respect to escape (backslash) characters. +The maximum number of additional bytes that a transform may add to a +base word is 13. Since the largest base word is 24 bytes long, a buffer +of 38 bytes is sufficient to store any transformed words +(counting a terminating zero byte). + .ti 0 9. Compressed data format |