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Subject: Re: [9fans] asn.1 alternatives
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:57:41 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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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.