--On Dienstag, Mai 05, 2009 16:57:50 -0400 Andrew Dunstan
<andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Hex will already provide some space savings over our current encoding
> method for most byteas anyway. It's not like we'd be making things less
> efficient space-wise. And in compressed archives the space difference is
> likely to dissolve to not very much, I suspect.
I'm dumb: I don't understand why a hex conversion would be significantly
faster than what we have now?
-- Thanks
Bernd