xml-dev - RE: ASN.1

["Mike Spreitzer" <spreitze@parc.xerox.com>]

Nigel Hutchison wrote: [[
I would have thought that the best way of dealing with this issue is to use
a "pleasant" syntax which was easy to  process and implement another layer
to compress the payload for transmission.
]]

Best in some contexts, but not all.  The compression layer has runtime
costs, in both code and memory footprint, and processing time.  In some
contexts (e.g., very resource-constrained items like cell phones and Palm
Pilots), these costs can be significant.

Mike


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