Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf

Re:Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf by nitrogen on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:08AM (#26304159)

A self-describing format like MessagePack can be easier to build readers for in other applications, or if the schema is lost or changed.

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Re:Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf by gpm on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:52AM (#26304794)

If we've lost access to the schema, then we've lost access to our entire source repository, so we probably don't need to read our data anymore?

I guess I could see that being an interesting property in software that wants to deal with incompatible forks, or software that for whatever reason wants other people to read their data but is unwilling to ship a schema with it, but just for persistence on backend servers it doesn't seem like a very interesting property or worth the extra space requirements.

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Re:Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf by imtringued on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:38AM (#26314202)

CBOR is the gold standard for schema free data.

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