Re: DIME Use Case?

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:21:19 -0700, in soap you wrote:

>Simon Fell <[email protected]> writes:
>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:16:00 -0700, in soap you wrote:
>> >So, you're saying that it's worth inventing an entirely new
>> >packaging protocol to avoid writing the relatively trivial
>> >amount of code required to handle MIME boundaries?
>>
>> No, I'm saying its worth it, to remove the runtime penalties
>> associated with it. [both on the generation and parsing side]
>I'm not convinced that these penalties are at all substantial.
>Do you have measurements that show that they are?

Only a gut feel at this point ( and the fact that the MIME version of
the code is at least twice the size of the DIME code ). When i get
some time, I'll try and get some concrete numbers.

>However, even if they were, surely it would be simpler to
>define a new "chunked" Content-Transfer-Encoding for MIME
>than to define an entirely new protocol.
>
>-Ekr

Only if the various MIME libraries (which is what most SwA impl's are
built with today), can be convinced to implement it.

Cheers
Simon