RE: [Animl-develop] Array Sizing for Base64 values

[David M. <d_m...@ac...>]

I just ran across this release of the "XML-binary Optimized Packaging" as a
W3C recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xop10-20050125. It strikes
me that this has the potential to a) reduce the file size of AnIML files;
and b) remove the need for encoding/decoding base64 strings, thereby
improving performance of software processing AnIML files.

I'm not proposing a switch to this specification at this point, but just
wanted to ask my learned colleagues whether this spec might make sense at
some point in the future?

Regards,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Burkhard Schaefer [mailto:b_...@us...] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:51 PM
To: AnIML Developer List
Subject: [Animl-develop] Array Sizing for Base64 values

Regarding Mark B.'s question about Base64 array lengths: I think most 
algorithms work the same way as the one you've written. You can infer 
the number of values by looking at the length of the base64 string. (if 
you know whether it contains float64 or float32 values)

This way you can find out how much memory you need to allocate before 
actually decoding the base64 string.

Best wishes,
Burkhard


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