How could anybody *not* agree on such decisions? Any expectations about performance gain with binary protocol?
Regards, Jure On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:23 +0000, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote: > It was also mutually agreed that: > > * the binary protocol would be the one most "core" implemented in > the server, performance being most important > > * the ASCII protocol will live on, unchanged, but will be moved > into protocol_ascii_compat.c, or similar. > > * we're all willing to take a speed-hit on ASCII protocol if we > have to (may not be needed), if the compat code isn't quite > as efficient as it is now. code readability/maintainability > more important. plus our time making binary protocol faster > more important. ASCII viewed as debugging aid, or for low-CPU > solution for old clients. > > * will most likely add a HTTP protocol as well, implemented in > protocol_http.c or something. not to be exposed to the world, > but still a lot of use cases for internal-network-only. > > With that, the notes...
