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Re:Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate c... by thrownaway2424 on Saturday May 25, 2013 @09:32PM (#5769659)
zlib-compressed XML cannot hold a candle to protocol buffers in the department of space efficiency.
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Re:Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate c... by nextweek2 on Sunday May 26, 2013 @03:00AM (#5770304)
Indeed, its the wrong tool for the job. EXI compressions would be better.

http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/

http://exificient.sourceforge.net/?id=performance

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0322.html

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