Re: MIME vs. DIME vs. ...

> While creating a "safe" string can be done at some cost,
I'm not sure what you mean by "some cost". We're talking units of time
that are unmeasurably small here, on the order of microseconds.
ARC4 (which is fine for this purpose) can do 45 MB/s on even quite
slow machines.

> finding it
> again when parsing the message is often the more problematic part.
> Having to look at every single octet is painful, especially for
> intermediaries who often have no reason to otherwise look at the data.
Again, I'd be interested in seeing performance numbers. In my
experience, this sort of low-level protocol parsing is rarely
a bottleneck in real world systems.

-Ekr

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