Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Portability across architectures..
Message-ID: <1988Sep14.230820.28652@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <103@simsdevl.UUCP> <7038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3942@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 23:08:20 GMT

In article <3942@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>1.   ASCII text is likely to be very bulky.

The question is whether reducing the bulk somewhat (often not as much as
you'd think) is worth the complications that result.  This is one of those
cases where the right thing to do is to implement it the obvious way, then
measure it to find out whether you NEED anything better.  Often you don't.
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