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XML would also have a problem with this: you'd replace < with <, then with &lt;, then with &amp;lt;, … It's not exponential, but still inefficient.
by xigoi 4y ago
XML would also have a problem with this: you'd replace < with <, then with &lt;, then with &amp;lt;, … It's not exponential, but still inefficient.
- simplotek 4y agoInefficient is not the same as problematic. They turned what otherwise would be a linear increase in memory usage into an exponential increase, which expectedly resulted in memory exhaustion problems. There are plenty of problems to go around this approach and overall system design, but the weakest link is undoubtedly how JSON was used.