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Re: Byte Encoding Algorithm

From: Alan Hudson <giles_at_yumetech.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:43:38 -0800

Paul Sandoz wrote:

> There is no different in size for encoding the encoding algorithm
> identifier and the length deliminator of the octets for built-in or
> application defined algorithms. The identifier is encoded in 1 byte
> for both cases.
>
Thanks for being my spec reference :) Good, then I won't be tempted to
make it a builtin for performance reasons.