29 Aug
2011
29 Aug
'11
10:11 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:40:45 +0100, you wrote:
If you're doing, say, cryptography, then thousand-bit random integers that need to be serialised are fairly common...
This is the part that makes no sense to me. Yes, you are absolutely correct that large, multiple-byte integers play a big role in cryptography. But those are invariably FIXED LENGTH multiple-byte integers. As I mentioned before, to the best of my knowledge, no one uses variable-size representations in those kinds of computationally-intensive applications. -Steve Schafer