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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 100 specification
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:52:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150903175255.GB9647@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJgMzuTJZxj7BWoEKD51OM=V200EfEimWM2Tkix7+zkCWcE0w@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Just use a 4-byte unsigned integer where the integer is the size in
> bytes. It's concise and less complex (and less complex to implement).
> There's no need for human readable strings here.

Solid NACK on making string parsers part of the consensus critical
codebase. (WTF‽)

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-03  3:33 [bitcoin-dev] BIP 100 specification Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03  4:45 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-03  7:57 ` jl2012
2015-09-03 11:20   ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 14:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 15:58       ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 16:13         ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-03 11:59   ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-03 16:32     ` jl2012
2015-09-03 16:35       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 17:32         ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 17:52           ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-09-04  7:53     ` Andy Chase
2015-09-04 15:37       ` Simon Liu
2015-09-04 15:40         ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 14:35   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 19:40 ` Simon Liu
2015-09-03 20:15   ` Oliver Petruzel
2015-09-03 20:34     ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-04  3:50       ` Peter Todd

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