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Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format
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Ludovic Brenta |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format |
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Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:02:55 +0200 |
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Markus Wanner <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello Stephen,
>
> thanks for your feedback.
>
> On 04/04/2016 06:58 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Human readable makes testing and developing new features much easier. If
>> we use binary, we will need a separate tool that translates that to
>> readable, which is then another source of bugs (or the same source, just
>> in a different place).
>
> Yeah, that's a point. However, I'd also argue that we should target the
> user and not the developer. And from a user's perspective, isn't
> monotone the very tool that does that kind of translation?
>
> Or put another way: Do *users* really care what serialization format
> monotone uses underneath?
No but they might care about performance. How much of monotone's time
is actually spent translating between binary and hex? Is this really a
major performance bottleneck?
--
Ludovic Brenta.
- [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format,
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, J Decker, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, J Decker, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Hendrik Boom, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Peter Stirling, 2016/04/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/07
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/07