On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 3:35:16 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > Oh, incidentally: If you want a decent binary format for > variable-sized integer, check out the MIDI spec.
I did some time ago, thanks, and it is indeed a decent format. I also looked at variations of that approach. None of them beats "my" concept of two counters that cooperatively specify field lengths and represented integer values. > I've tried to read through the original algorithm description, but I'm > not entirely sure: How many payload bits per transmitted byte does it > actually achieve? I don't think that payload bits per byte makes sense in this concept. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
