[Monotone-devel] silly question #2: why base64?

[Lapo Luchini]

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Isn't sqlite supposed to be binary-safe?
Well, except from \0, AFAIR, but shouldn't avoiding that be way faster
and smaller than full base64?
OK, HDD is cheap, but wasting 1/3 of the space and using a system that
is designed to be binary safe seems a pity to me =)

(I see that even text data is put as base64 actualy, so I guess there is
a reason behind it, but I cannot grasp it ^_^)

PS: I wonder why the sqlite.org does contain no more a reference to the
suggested sqlite_encode_binary() it once had and I was remembering
about... I guess that's because sqlite3 doesn't need it no more and also
\0 is a valid char, though I cannot find a direct confirmation of it

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