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> Performance is shit because it’s using text to encode everything so that it’s human readable. Similarly parsing is extra complicated and slow for that reason.
by formerly_proven 6y ago
> Performance is shit because it’s using text to encode everything so that it’s human readable. Similarly parsing is extra complicated and slow for that reason. [...] Finally the data representation itself is extremely bloated vs the binary data.
A weird criticism considering the encoding rules usually used for ASN.1 are all binary and some of them are bit-packed (like PER), which is very uncommon in newer protocols (for good reason).
Oh and there is OER now, which is actually a very reasonable binary encoding.