Hello, There is no evidence that it is being used a lot. But there is this, https://www.npmjs.com/package/base91 (< 100 downloads till now). And this, a research paper, http://www.iiis.org/CDs2010/CD2010SCI/CCCT_2010/PapersPdf/TB100QM.pdf Seems pretty interesting.
there is 7.7% (of Base64’s encoded data) cut off in data traffic, transfer > time, transfer cost, at the same time there is saving our society some > energy, if employing Base91 instead of Base64 as encoding for network data > transfer with huge data > We never know how much of a performance boost it provides or what downsides this has, unless we try it out ourselves. Let me know what you guys think. Warm regards, Sushruth ᐧ On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Matt Jones <al2o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:18 PM, sivsushruth <sivsushr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was checking out > https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini.rb#L152 > > It has: TODO: Add support for other encodings > > So, I googled a bit and found this: http://base91.sourceforge.net/ > On initial investigation, this seems a pretty good alternative to base64 > > I feel this might be of good value to a lot of developers. > If you guys feel the same way, I will be more than happy to get started on > this. > > > Is there any evidence that base91 is used “in the wild”? References to it > are very light on Google etc; for instance, Wikipedia only mentions it as > an “external link” on the Ascii85 page. > > It’s also going to be tricky to embed in XML, since it uses several > characters that XML reserves (<, &, > and ") which will require escaping. > That appears to have been addressed in a variant ( > https://github.com/r-lyeh/base91) which uses a different set of > characters. > > —Matt Jones > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
