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by flowerthoughts 318 days ago
> And we were discussing ASN.1, not its serialisations.

You said

>> Would you rather write a parser for this:

which suggested you were talking about serializations. I apologize if I misunderstood.
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eadmund 318 days ago
No worries! ASN.1 is a bit weird because there’s a textual version and then a bunch of serialisations.

I think that human-readable is more important than space-efficient. At some point an engineer is going to be looking at bytes in a dump or debugger, and it sure is nice to be able to quickly know what they are.

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