Markus Wanner <mar...@bluegap.ch> writes: > Hello Stephen, > > thanks for your feedback. > > On 04/04/2016 06:58 PM, Stephen Leake wrote: >> Human readable makes testing and developing new features much easier. If >> we use binary, we will need a separate tool that translates that to >> readable, which is then another source of bugs (or the same source, just >> in a different place). > > Yeah, that's a point. However, I'd also argue that we should target the > user and not the developer. And from a user's perspective, isn't > monotone the very tool that does that kind of translation? > > Or put another way: Do *users* really care what serialization format > monotone uses underneath?
No but they might care about performance. How much of monotone's time is actually spent translating between binary and hex? Is this really a major performance bottleneck? -- Ludovic Brenta. _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
