- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:35:59 -0800
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
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
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