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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, hiphish@posteo.de
Subject: Re: A value for "nothing"
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:32:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftyzsdgr.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_ScNYJTTR48eFPX7VouhEB1iFGoVHzLDWeTsbdRsJY7MQ@mail.gmail.com> (John Cowan's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:00:26 -0400")

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> writes:
> However, in formats like JSON where map keys are always strings,
> it can save a lot of space to represent them as symbols, since
> they are often repeated from one object to the next.  There is no such
> limitation in MessagePack, although I bet strings are the most common
> type of map keys.

Agree that this is a point in favor of using symbols to represent
MessagePack strings.

       Mark



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-27 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-26 10:13 A value for "nothing" HiPhish
2018-08-26 17:21 ` Thomas Morley
2018-08-26 17:27 ` Joshua Branson
2018-08-26 17:49 ` John Cowan
2018-08-27  4:52   ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-27 13:00     ` John Cowan
2018-08-27 21:29       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-27 21:32       ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-08-26 20:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-26 22:08   ` Matt Wette
2018-08-27  8:04   ` tomas
2018-08-27 20:12     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-27 20:46       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28  0:50         ` Matt Wette
2018-08-28  6:58           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28 15:19             ` John Cowan
2018-08-28 15:38               ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28 15:59                 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28 16:12                 ` John Cowan
2018-08-28 17:15                   ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28 19:07                   ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-27 20:54       ` Hans Åberg
2018-08-27  0:17 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2018-08-27  8:02   ` tomas
2018-08-27  8:29     ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2018-08-27  8:29   ` HiPhish
     [not found] ` <8840615.kRvQfVdCvZ@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740>
     [not found]   ` <CAD2gp_QLqd=_RbF=HTEbCLp1onmUq-c74g0FXTvMgdz8JB4-8A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-08-27  8:24     ` HiPhish
     [not found] ` <3467110.H24gZIzStD@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740>
     [not found]   ` <87ftz0vidc.fsf@netris.org>
2018-08-27  8:40     ` HiPhish
2018-08-27 12:37       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-27 19:49         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28  7:52           ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-08-26 20:25 HiPhish
2018-09-13 21:49 HiPhish
     [not found] ` <CAD2gp_Sg-aDXZKfOcL-i2py7ne4c0Cp+2HvKS4DYi1Antm_B1A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-14 22:45   ` HiPhish
2018-09-15  0:26     ` John Cowan
2018-09-15 14:50       ` HiPhish
2018-09-15 18:28         ` Keith Wright
2018-09-15 21:50           ` Edwin Watkeys
2018-09-15 22:16             ` HiPhish
2018-09-15 22:23               ` Edwin Watkeys
2018-09-15 22:13           ` HiPhish
2018-09-15 22:45       ` David Pirotte

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