Re: Re: bencoding 0:

>From: Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]>
> >>From: Mike Ravkine <[email protected]>
> >> Abandoning the current simple almost-human-readable encoding scheme in
> >> favor of a binary one (and/or adding any kind of compression) is a huge
> >> step backwards.
> >
> > Could be worthwhile to specify that torrent files may be optionally
> > compressed using the libz style compression. Though this isn't a large
> > gain.
> >
> > In terms of the torrent files, I dislike the searches of the dictionaries
> > taking linear time, but this isn't a big issue yet.
> 
> If you read the file into memory, you can put it in any data structure you 
> want to prevent the lineair searches. 

Yes, but this requires you to read the entire torrent into memory. Given
that they're less than 128K/GB this isn't a big issue, but I find it
inelegant.


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