Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Brady
, have wide variance in parsing, are not very hash-able, the list goes on. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Richard Brady rnbr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gavin, Mike and co Is there a strong driver behind the choice of Google Protocol Buffers for payment request encoding in BIP-0070

[Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Brady
Hi Gavin, Mike and co Is there a strong driver behind the choice of Google Protocol Buffers for payment request encoding in BIP-0070? Performance doesn't feel that relevant when you think that: 1. Payment requests are not broadcast, this is a request / response flow, much more akin to a web