[Antoine] >>> - first byte: bits 7-5: N (= frame size bytes length - 1) >>> - first byte: bits 4-0: first 5 bits of frame size >>> - remaning N bytes: remaining bits of frame size
[Tim] >> I'm unclear on how that would work for, e.g., encoding 40 = >> 0b000101000. That has 6 significant bits. Would you store 0 in the >> leading byte and 40 in the second byte? That would work. [Antoine] > Yeah, I haven't decided whether it would be big-endian or > little-endian. It doesn't matter much. big-endian sounds a bit easier > to decode and encode (no bit shifts needed), it's also less consistent > with the rest of the pickle opcodes. As you've told me, the framing layer is beneath the opcode layer, so what opcodes do is irrelevant ;-) Big-endian would be my choice (easier (en)(de)coding, both via software and via eyeball when staring at dumps);. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
