Re: [xml-dev] [Fwd: Re: The 11-pound solution (fwd)]

[Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>]

9/14/2002 4:01:21 PM, Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com> wrote:

>In terms of other stuff -- e.g., 
>development time, integration with Web servers, services, and
>architecture -- ASN.1 bites.

Precisely.  That's why "worse" in the (generally) trivial sense
of CPU/bandwidth efficiency is "better" overall ... and
why Datapower, etc. will be happy to help you throw hardware
at the problem in those situations where XML's inefficiency
leads to a bottleneck.