| ▲ | tptacek a day ago | |
One of the few concessions I'll make to Sun: XDR was under-appreciated. | ||
| ▲ | ChuckMcM 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
You can thank Tom Lyon for it. Tom pretty much did the entire RPC/XDR/NFS stack to kick things off. | ||
| ▲ | cryptonector 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
XDR is like a four-octet aligned version of PER for a cut-down version of ASN.1. It's really neat. XDR would not need much work to be a full-blown ER for ASN.1... But XDR is extremely inefficient as to booleans (4 bytes per!) and optional fields (since they are encoded as a 4-byte boolean followed by the value if the field is present). | ||