Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Brady
Thanks guys, great answers. The design choice certainly makes a lot more sense now regardless of whether one agrees with it or not. Regards, Richard -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Brady
e wide variance in parsing, are not very hash-able, > the list goes on. > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Richard Brady wrote: > >> Hi Gavin, Mike and co >> >> Is there a strong driver behind the choice of Google Protocol Buffers for >> payment request encodin

[Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Brady
Hi Gavin, Mike and co Is there a strong driver behind the choice of Google Protocol Buffers for payment request encoding in BIP-0070? Performance doesn't feel that relevant when you think that: 1. Payment requests are not broadcast, this is a request / response flow, much more akin to a web reque