It's not about drive space but bandwidth on networks including relatively slow speed internet. 100kvs 20k is a 5:1 ratio that is significant when it is the difference between 5secs and 1 sec refresh time on an app. 5ms vs 1ms is not significant on a wide bandwidth network.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 2:06 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] M$ is pushing ahead for performance On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:22 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > You've kinda answered your own question: in a closed architecture, > it's > overkill. Not just closed, but closed and static. In other words, where you will never ever need to interface with any future system. We hear about systems that are in service for 10-20 years and are still running. Imagine if the business it ran grew (horrors!) and began adding additional systems that were written in "something else". Wouldn't it be nice if that happened, and you didn't have to duplicate your efforts in the new system? XML is bloated compared to a binary format. What you have to ask yourself is if choosing an inflexible binary to save some space or bandwidth is a premature optimization or not. If the XML data took 100K and the binary took 20K, is that really terribly important on your 1TB drive? -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
