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> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:03:24AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote:

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> > As an unix guy, I'd skip the encoding and send the whole thing as

> > space separaed text, since then you could simply do a telnet to the

> > other host and run it by hand. Compare e.g. to smtp.

> > The performance loss of printf() and scanf() at sending/receiving

> > sides are minimal, and plain text is much easier to debug.

> > But, this is of cause moot, since OSC is already there.

> This 'telnet style' has existed for almost as long unix has,

> and clearly there was a need for something more efficient in

> some types of application.

It might be so, but I think is more a question of how this or that

group of people think. Unix guys thinks "text protocol", others are

prone to think "binary protocol", not because it is a proven

performance issue, but because they are used to it, and they don't

have the big/little endian thing or differing floating point formats

to care about.
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> In many cases (if only a limited set of commands is required,

> no wildcards, no timed commands) OSC encoding/decoding can be

> done almost 'zero-copy' and using just a few lines of very

> simple code. The biggest error you can make in such cases, if

> efficienty is an issue, is to use a general purpose 'full'

> implementation such as e.g. liblo.

Ok, I'll try liblo first, if that is to slow, I'll implement it

myself.
Regards,

/Karl
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Karl Hammar                    Asp