Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of PackfileTasklist

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Timestamp:
01/12/11 16:59:53 (11 years ago)
Author:
plobsing
Comment:

add preliminary ideas about PBC portability (avoiding n-to-n translation as we have now)

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  • PackfileTasklist

    v7 v8  
    4545 - Deprecate VTABLE_freeze and VTABLE_thaw. Replace with VTABLE_visit 
    4646 - Rename VTABLE_thawfinish to VTABLE_visit_finish 
     47 
     48= Portable PBC = 
     49 - Define new PBC encoding format for inter-host communication (network PBC) 
     50   - optimize for portability and size, not encode/decode ease 
     51     - protobuf varint/zig-zag encoding for ints where possible 
     52     - network order for fixed size objects 
     53     - UTF-8 for unicode 
     54 - Provide mechanism for opting-in to network PBC (default is host PBC) 
     55 - Remove complicated, now-unecessary host-to-host decode logic (pf_items.c)