Re: LANG: VRML 1.x Binary Format Proposal

Robert DiFalco ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 1995 20:42:36 -0700


Mitra,

>No - what I'm trying to point out is that the case of lots of small files
>may hurt our bandwidth as much as the big files, in which case a binary
>format would be pretty easy to handle whereas launching gzip costs time and
>for really small files doesnt gain us much.

Good point. Of course, a binary format (such as one that is given by a VRML
compiler) will, I think, bring up issues about ease of extensibility. Its
unfortunate that VRML doesn't have an actual grammar.

Robert