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.
