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Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper

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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
>> For sizes below 128, one byte of length. For sizes 128-16383, two bytes. And
>> so on. Compact yet unbounded.
>
> [...]
>
> It's generally a lot faster to do a read(2) than a loop with any
> number of read(1), and you get some kind of bound on your allocations.
> Whether that's important to you or not is another question, but
> certainly your chosen encoding is a good way of allowing arbitrary
> integer values.

You can read a full buffer even if you have a variable-length length
encoding.


Marko

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Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 17:57 +1000
  Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-09-21 10:59 +0300
    Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:07 +1000
      Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-09-21 11:38 +0300
        Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:45 +1000
          Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-09-21 11:48 +0300
            Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-09-21 11:49 +0300
        Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 18:50 +1000
          Re: Lightwight socket IO wrapper Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-09-22 07:59 +0000

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