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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C binding interfaces for TCP/IP
Message-ID: <7202@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 29 Jan 88 20:18:06 GMT
References: <25@vdelta.UUCP> <2168@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2168@cognos.UUCP> jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson) writes:
>In conjunction with RPC, Sun has
>an excellent protocol called XDR (eXternal Data Representation) ...

I wouldn't call it "excellent".  A few months back, when I needed to
design and implement a package for inter-system data exchange as part
of a large project we're developing, the first thing I thought of was
to adopt XDR for my machine-independent data transfer.  So, I looked
it up in the Sun reference manual and found that it had FAR too much
overhead for my purposes.  I ended up implementing my own scheme that
runs much faster.