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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Efficiency (or lack thereof) of ASN.1. Was: Re: What is the IAB?
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Date: 7 Jun 90 16:37:38 GMT
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In article <11946@asylum.SF.CA.US>, karl@asylum.SF.CA.US (Karl Auerbach)
writes:
> In my SNMP code, my profilers indicate that an
> overly large portion of the of cycles are spent in the ASN.1
> encoder/decoder.  Maybe my code is inefficient -- although I doubt it.

You might want to look at it again.  The quite restricted variant of ASN.1
that is used in SNMP can actually be pretty quick to parse.  Most of the
publically available ASN.1 parsers that I have seen are overly complex...

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Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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"If we don't succeed, then we run the risk of failure."  -- Dan Quayle