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I think the thinking here is that the sender may not be able to compute the byte size of the object a priori. Think HTTP chunked encoding.
by mwcremer 13y ago
I think the thinking here is that the sender may not be able to compute the byte size of the object a priori. Think HTTP chunked encoding.
- ghoul2 13y agoI understand that is a concern in many situations. The problem here though is that you don't get the "streaming" benefits in any case: you still have to include the length-in-number-of-items of the compound type and the lengths of each individual member item in any case.