On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > >> In the 1980's a lot of protocols were binary, and designed for use over slow serial links. Nowadays, it seems like new protocols are mostly text-based and descended from HTTP or other Internet RFC's. > > With as a result that sender apps are wasting their > time by converting internal binary data to <whatever > bloated format>, and receivers by doing the inverse > operation... :-] In the general case, where networked computers may have different endian orientation or floating point representations, that is actually necessary. -- joq _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
