[Forces-protocol] Re: Data encoding -- first part

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

Why not just declare that structs start with their length.  Then we can 
declare that an array consists of its element count (or length and element 
count) followed by the representation of its contents.  [Ignoring for the 
moment the issue of dense vs sparse packing, subscript representation, etc.]

Yours,
Joel

At 04:45 PM 10/18/2004 -0400, Zsolt Haraszti wrote:
>This is another trade-off issue.  You are absolutely right, inserting
>the size info in front of each struct can be very useful, especially if
>it is a variable size struct.  We will have this in ARRAYs, not
>part of the struct itself, but part of the ARRAY encoding.
>That does not help when the STRUCT is embedded in another struct though.


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