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Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> My point was
> about people comparing gzipped XML with $binary_format and then saying "See?
> Why bother with the binary format? gzipped XML is smaller!".
>
> My counterthrust being that the non-gzipped binary format will be much less
> resource intensive to process, and not much more resource intensive to
> transmit over the Internet; and if the latter is a real problem then gzipped
> binary will be smaller and easier to process than gzipped xml, if you can
> afford to go around gzipping things.
Oh I see, sorry I hadn't understood what your point was addressing. It is fairly
rare that bin-xml will be larger than the gzip'd XML. Usually that's the worst
case scenario (schema-less bin-xml will often produce results within -/+3% of
gzip and it hasn't been optimised yet).
And of course you're right that when worst case does happen, there's still
decoding speed, streaming, etc.
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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/
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