On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sebastian Lauwers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any specific reason to create Z85 instead of going with Base64, which > doesn't present the escape characters drawback that Ascii85 has? I > understand that there's a few percent difference in terms of efficiency, > but, other than that? The added efficiency was one reason; the other is that Base85 uses groups of 4 bytes which fits our 32-byte keys better. > Also, to be clear, the format would only be used as a means to represent > binary data in source files, and would not be sent over the wire, correct? Correct, it's only for source code and config files and perhaps sending by email. > I couldn't find the reference implementation in the rfc repository, the src > folder only seems to contain an implementation for rfc27. It should be in the libzmq master now. I've got a commit ready to push to the rfc repo but haven't finished it. -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
