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eckzow
on Jan 20, 2013
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The Blink Protocol
In re your first bullet: If such things are important to you, it looks like you can produce fixed size packets through a variety of methods. In particular, they support overlength encodings.
bkirwi
on Jan 20, 2013
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True; but it's hard to support a fixed-length encoding when a message can contain nested collections of arbitrary length.
drosenborg
on Jan 31, 2013
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The just released Blink Native binary format might be an alternative if you want a fixed-length encoding:
http://blog.blinkprotocol.org/2013/01/blink-native-format-re...
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