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Yes. In what way does that mean that the transmission size should not be compressed? Bitmapped images are not the only data structure whose size will shrink by
by IncRnd 4y ago
Yes. In what way does that mean that the transmission size should not be compressed? Bitmapped images are not the only data structure whose size will shrink by removing redundancy.
- Xorlev 4y agoI think you're being downvoted because you've claimed "That's a case of not solving the problem.", but I think that actually better describes this answer. It's clever, certainly, but misses the fact that the stack of screens was never intended to be recursively escaped and changing the form that it took was the real fix rather than rubbing some compression sauce on what was never intended to be lots of backslashes in the first place. And indeed, that's what the author did: they shipped a bandaid fix while working on a more comprehensive fix, one which didn't require RLE or a quadtree (!).
- IncRnd 4y agoYou're describing the desire to avoid protocol compression when transmitting data that grows without bound. That has nothing to do with fixing the backslashes. The problem isn't backslashes. Those are just a symptom of data that can have any length.