Re: [Rails-core] basE91 in Rails

2015-03-08 Thread Sushruth Sivaramakrishnan
Hello, There is no evidence that it is being used a lot. But there is this, https://www.npmjs.com/package/base91 ( 100 downloads till now). And this, a research paper, http://www.iiis.org/CDs2010/CD2010SCI/CCCT_2010/PapersPdf/TB100QM.pdf Seems pretty interesting. there is 7.7% (of Base64’s

Re: [Rails-core] basE91 in Rails

2015-03-08 Thread Federico Builes
Hi Sushruth, On Mar 8, 2015, at 11:00 PM, Sushruth Sivaramakrishnan sivsushr...@gmail.com wrote: There is no evidence that it is being used a lot. But there is this, https://www.npmjs.com/package/base91 ( 100 downloads till now). We never know how much of a performance boost it

Re: [Rails-core] basE91 in Rails

2015-03-08 Thread Sushruth Sivaramakrishnan
Hello Federico, Seems like a good first step. But I just want to get a general idea, if this is something that the developers will use at all ? ᐧ On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Federico Builes federico.bui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sushruth, On Mar 8, 2015, at 11:00 PM, Sushruth

Re: [Rails-core] basE91 in Rails

2015-03-08 Thread Matt Jones
On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:18 PM, sivsushruth sivsushr...@gmail.com wrote: I was checking out https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini.rb#L152 It has: TODO: Add support for other encodings So, I googled a bit and found this:

[Rails-core] basE91 in Rails

2015-03-06 Thread sivsushruth
I was checking out https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini.rb#L152 It has: TODO: Add support for other encodings So, I googled a bit and found this: http://base91.sourceforge.net/ On initial investigation, this seems a pretty good alternative to