[BitTorrent] Re: bencoding 0:
Elliott Mitchell
ehem at m5p.com
Fri Nov 19 18:46:46 EST 2004
>From: Mike Ravkine <krypt at mountaincable.net>
> Abandoning the current simple almost-human-readable encoding scheme in
> favor of a binary one (and/or adding any kind of compression) is a huge
> step backwards.
Could be worthwhile to specify that torrent files may be optionally
compressed using the libz style compression. Though this isn't a large
gain.
In terms of the torrent files, I dislike the searches of the dictionaries
taking linear time, but this isn't a big issue yet.
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