I wonder if anyone complaining about binary formats has ever written a high performance parser. Particularly, HTTP's text format, is a mess. You can continue h

I wonder if anyone complaining about binary formats has ever written a high performance parser. Particularly, HTTP's text format, is a mess. You can continue headers from one line to another. You can embed comments into header values. Seriously. Comments. In a protocol's messages. It's moronic and indefensible. Why anyone would prefer that is probably them thinking that text equals easy to implement or something like that.