Tim Bray scripsit:
> I agree with the leading sentences. As for the last, Base64 encodes
> 3 bytes as 4, thus incurring exactly 33% overhead. Whether that
> is considered "immense" depends on your application scenario. -Tim
It also invokes the overhead, less quantifiable but in some cases
more important, of being human-unreadable. Remember the tale of
the 1860 and 1960 U.S. Census data.
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