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Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-01-19 📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED ...

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On 19 January 2015 12:09:13 GMT-07:00, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at bitpay.com> wrote:
>Text formats such as XML or JSON are far less deterministic, are more
>loosely specified, have wide variance in parsing, are not very
>hash-able,
>the list goes on.

Protocol buffers isn't any more hashable than XML or json - round trips aren't deterministic with standard protobuf libraries. To make it deterministic you end up creating a new standard.

I have this problem for an asset representation standard for one of my clients, and I've reluctantly had to roll my own format.
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