alt Hacker NewsCompressed JSON with the binary content encoded in base64 strings, obviously.
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einpoklum • today at 8:32 AM
Why would zipped JSON be fundamentally superior to zipped XML?
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Compressed JSON with the binary content encoded in base64 strings, obviously.
Why would zipped JSON be fundamentally superior to zipped XML?
So you compress a format that inflates binaries with 30%?
That not only ends up larger than "just the binary", it also eats a lot of extra CPU to (de)compress AND encode-decode.
This idea is novel, but wasteful.
(edit: I thought you were serious, so I answered serious. You were not ;)