Re: [Arianne-devel] replacing Serializer

[Brian R. <bri...@ya...>]

--- MIGUEL ANGEL BLANCH LARDIN <mb...@fe...>
wrote:
> > From what I see in the current code, most
> network-transfer is
> > text-based 
> > anyway. Therefore I propose making the standard
> network-message only
> > contain 
> > a string (plus some other possibly), transmitted
> either with explicit 
> > length-field or with the string-typical
> zero-delimiter.
> > This will save us some trouble because:
> > - easier to debug
> > - less code to debug
> 
> That is wrong/not correct/not related to actual
> code. The network-transfer is 
> binary. 
> I don't agree with replacing it by a text-based one.
> Also the actual one is 
> working correctly.
> 
> As I have said before, please if someone is working
> forget about it and move to 
> do/fix something that is not working.

Ok. I agree with this more than what I said earlier. 
But, let's keep this change in mind for the future.

> The one that said that Bzip2 was not good did an
> stupid sentence. 
> He said something about Bzip2 adding a lag of 14
> seconds or so... Bzip2 is 
> correct.

I'm not convinced.  Let's do a benchmarking on the
availible libs.  What do you say?

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