> on the recipient? Has anybody ever benchmarked Flash Remoting
> against both normal and gzip'ed webservices?
>
Binary formats are generally less verbose than human readable formats.
Obviously, there can thus be space savings, which mean less data to
transmit across the wire and possibly less data to parse through.
However, the really question is how much space savings you get and is
it worth the tradeoff of not using a standard, mature protocol. I
personally have looked into the differences between AMF and compressed
SOAP. The advantages in terms of space is insignificant, while there is
some difference in performance, but that is pretty minor. Most folks
that are pushing Flash Remoting over standard SOAP are comparing AMF to
uncompressed SOAP and thus are seeing benefits that aren't really
applicable. In my mind, Macromedia killed any reason to use Flash
Remoting with Flash 7 by supporting SOAP.
-Matt
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