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On 19 January 2015 12:09:13 GMT-07:00, Jeff Garzik <jgar...@bitpay.com> wrote: >Text formats such as XML or JSON are far less deterministic, are more >loosely specified, have wide variance in parsing, are not very >hash-able, >the list goes on. Protocol buffers isn't any more hashable than XML or json - round trips aren't deterministic with standard protobuf libraries. To make it deterministic you end up creating a new standard. I have this problem for an asset representation standard for one of my clients, and I've reluctantly had to roll my own format. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: APG v1.1.1 iQFQBAEBCAA6BQJUvV+KMxxQZXRlciBUb2RkIChsb3cgc2VjdXJpdHkga2V5KSA8 cGV0ZUBwZXRlcnRvZGQub3JnPgAKCRAZnIM7qOfwhRwcCACNkpkkjIh8Zv5I8bOy BpM2Tc5hVpg4KY6eKRXYLYgxoEnekDXN1/LJ5bfl+xzJTMTdt4f7YF0EjFJSIJ0C UpR9KbEVShmt7UsoNwwAFxtMQmZe84vANGG11NI/cb95GO2TOlxYtPMFizQrp80s ULAelID3Pd8yPeadU/yrF+daz9I8UHqOyioL0piWUT+kshuzqQNclHQaPKWoOPbW XF4w1SAJjb1tHmkHqCY1HRvwlv8fqxXgjtEyjkz/HK70ZzOI+8aR49aigx2njwyL F8EJ1gO3XkivRidTRKfbSloeq96TRneXXXfmyB6p8jI3O3BRkrk9x465EWMnzYu7 uJqo =N1G+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development