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From: schoff@PSI.COM ("Martin Lee Schoffstall")
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: 9 Jun 90 21:55:20 GMT
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 > 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.

Refresh my memory but doesn't your code base derive from an effort
to span the perceived market for both CMOT and SNMP?  Could this
be a factor?  I've seen some very tight code by commercial implementors
of SNMP.

While you make the comparison of ASN.1 vs "SNMP" within your
code base, do remember that the tradeoff were made between

	doing real work code (such as routing)
		vs
	network management code

inside the network entity.  That was the foundation of all
critical engineering decision tradeoffs.

Your statement above leads me to believe that you aren't seeing the forest
for the trees.

Marty