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Re: [Sipping] Alternate CLF syntax proposal

"Vijay K. Gurbani" <vkg@alcatel-lucent.com> Thu, 26 March 2009 02:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Sipping] Alternate CLF syntax proposal
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Adam Roach wrote:
> In the spirit of "send text," I've put together a straw-man proposal for 
> an easy-to-generate and fast-to-process extensible format for saving SIP 
> log messages:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-roach-sipping-clf-syntax-00.txt
[...]

Adam: Essentially you are advocating for a table-of-content
type of approach where you read the ToC and index straight
to where you want to go.  I have worked on SIP parsers
designed this way.

The parsing is optimized, yes, when compared to the ASCII
version -- though perl can do wonders, but not to outperform
binary parsing.  The disadvantage is that you loose readability
and would need specialized tools to, say, grep through such
a file.

It will be interesting to see what others think...

Thanks,

- vijay
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