Hi, Gregory Stark wrote:
Perhaps if you're doing some form of replication between different architectures you might want to use binary representation for your transfers. Or if you're doing something in a PL language like compressing or bundling up multiple data in a container format or something.
I'm not quite sure I understand where you're coming from, but isn't that what the send and recv functions for most data types are for? Don't those provide a cross-platform compatible binary representation?
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