binary protocol?

[low tartan]

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[clever egret]

How does it work?
instead of sending a string and its length, you send a struct and its length

[lost panther]

why would you do this as opposed to sending plain text?

[clever egret]

text is less memory efficient

eg INT_MAX fits into 4 bytes the same value as text takes 2147483647 10 bytes

which can get worse for bigger numbers

[lost panther]

I dont understand that, can you elaborate abit more in more simplified way

How is text less memory efficient

Wait so what is more efficient in general then? Binary or text?

Also could you show an example of how to send as binary? I heard if you send a struct you have to be careful depending on the endian type?

[tidal quail]

because text uses characters, not numbers

[tidal quail]

pretty much everything in the last 20 years uses little endian so its sorta safe

[tidal quail]

what do you need to send?

transforming your structs into text will always be less efficient, sending raw data is obviously better

[clever egret]

to represent a single digit in ASCII you need at least 7 bits
if you were to use those 7bits to represent a number you could have one in the range of 0-127 that means you can fit two more digits into the same memory space

ASCII 0-9 1 digit, 7bits
binary 0-127 1-3digits, also 7 bits

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