Re:ParaText: CSV parsing at 2.5 GB per second
by nostrademons on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:24PM
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> Has anyone actually used ASCII unit and record separator delimiters successfully?
At my first job, the (proprietary) database server we used had a communication protocol that used the ASCII STX/ETX/EOT/ACK/ETB/GS/RS/US characters. When I looked up those ASCII codes I was like "Oh, that's clever", but in practice, it was just another proprietary binary format, and had all the problems of proprietary binary formats. The control codes still needed to be escaped in source code; they still weren't visible in log files or when viewing console output. They were basically just bytes we had to send to implement the protocol.
At my first job, the (proprietary) database server we used had a communication protocol that used the ASCII STX/ETX/EOT/ACK/ETB/GS/RS/US characters. When I looked up those ASCII codes I was like "Oh, that's clever", but in practice, it was just another proprietary binary format, and had all the problems of proprietary binary formats. The control codes still needed to be escaped in source code; they still weren't visible in log files or when viewing console output. They were basically just bytes we had to send to implement the protocol.