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On 2024-02-18 11:06, Simon Wright wrote:

> OK if the participants all have the same endianness. We used XDR (and
> the translation cost is nil if the host is big-endian, as PowerPCs are;
> all the critical machines were PowerPC).

I always override stream attributes and use portable formats. E.g. some 
chained code for integers. Sign + exponent + normalized mantissa for 
floats, again chained. That is all. There is no need in XDR, JSON, ASN.1 
or other data representation mess. They are just worthless overhead.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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