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Re:The lost art of XML by johngossman on Thursday January 22, 2026 @11:48PM (#46728550)
Your memory is correct. Once compression was applied, the size on the wire was mostly a wash. Parsing costs were often greater but that's at the endpoints.
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Re:The lost art of XML by shadowgovt on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:19PM (#46735792)
But one of those endpoints is a client on a mobile phone, which when we started with Internet on mobile devices wasn't a particularly powerful CPU architecture.
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