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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Yep. The problem is that the qualities one optimizes for tend
> to be competitive, that is, none make all as fast or as
> small as possible. It's too much like shoe and bra sizes:
> the trendy solution may not be comfortable or long lived
> so the classics keep on being used.
Yeah, but very much unlike shoes or bras in this case we'd really like
to all be wearing the same. The question isn't so much about the fact
that you can't get both the absolute optimal speed and the absolute
optimal size -- that's obvious. If however you include standardization
as a third optimization axis (which in many ways is sensical), you will
find many people agreeing that if it's standard they're happy with
"faster enough" and "smaller enough". And it's not hard to be both
faster and smaller than XML, the hardest part is getting a good feel for
the "enough" bit.
--
Robin Berjon
Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
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