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Re: [apps-discuss] Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net> Thu, 23 May 2013 15:01 UTC

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On 5/23/2013 7:59 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
> To switch example, JSON has no encoding for sets, or binary data,
> because neither exist in the model it's encoding. Because they don't
> exist, there's no need to encode them - if you wanted to encode them
> (because your source model differs from that assumed), you'd need to do
> something else (like base64 encoding). This naturally reduces efficiency.

that's pretty specific.  thanks.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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