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From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] asn.1 alternatives
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:57:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3b30ef5630eb05d5f08a3a9de822c2f@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <397b504b58a5f6c5ff602c2f19c4463a@plan9.bell-labs.com>

i wonder if this is an entropy  phenomenon.  when an ABSTRACT
notation is made CONCRETE, something has to give.  it is as if instead
of just translating a message in English to one in French, one sent
a polyglot along with the message.

>>>> > What are the alternatives?  My pick is ASN.1, any time.
> 
> Ha.  I'm working on a UMTS base station (another, interesting tale
> of hard real time in Plan 9) and we're using an ASN.1 compiler that
> typically takes 30-bytes ASN.1 packed messages and decompresses
> them into 5 megabyte (yes, MEGA byte) C structs.  Amazing.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-11 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-11  0:10 [9fans] More 'Sam I am' quanstro
2006-02-11  3:01 ` jmk
2006-02-11 14:29   ` [9fans] asn.1 alternatives Charles Forsyth
2006-02-11 14:54     ` Sape Mullender
2006-02-11 16:13       ` lucio
2006-02-11 16:57       ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2006-02-11 16:05     ` lucio
2006-02-11 17:52       ` Marina Brown
2006-02-11 16:28     ` Dan Cross
2006-02-11 16:53       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-02-11 22:47       ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-20  0:04     ` Harri Haataja
2006-02-11  6:04 ` ASN.1 (Was: [9fans] More 'Sam I am') lucio
2006-02-11  6:54   ` geoff
2006-02-11  8:06     ` lucio
2006-02-11  8:44       ` geoff
2006-02-11 12:10         ` lucio
2006-02-11  8:55     ` Steve Simon
2006-02-11  9:16       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-11  7:04   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-11  7:09     ` geoff
2006-02-11  7:53       ` lucio
2006-02-11  7:53       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-11 16:37 [9fans] asn.1 alternatives quanstro

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