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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:22:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netgraph...
Message-ID:  <199901300822.AAA06454@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <8811.917683529@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jan 30, 99 09:05:29 am"

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >What did you think of the idea of having each node contain two
> >new methods for encoding and decoding ASCII strings? I say methods
> >but really they would just understand two new generic message types.
> 
> I don't see the point, quite frankly...

The point is that you avoid having to parse ASCII strings
for *every* control message.

Only ngctl uses these encode/decode messages when it needs
to communicate with humans. Otherwise, everything is done
in 'native' binary format.

-Archie

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