Re: binaryXML, marshalling, and and trust boundaries

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> It seems like people are focusing on size/compressability as the only
> potential benefit of an alternate serialization.
> 
> Another is efficiency; a binary serialization might use length-encoding,
> rather than using character delimiters.

OK, but one wonders if the difference in computation effort is really 
significant given good parsing technique. -Tim