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A comment on The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011).

Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by ithinkso on Friday April 11, 2014 @06:57PM (#7576084)
With NULL terminated strings it also was simpler to serialize it. If str+len was a standard now we would have 13 more serialization standards.
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