In article <4060902f@news.povray.org>,
 "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:

> Christopher James Huff wrote:
> > No it's not. Bloat means more to transfer over the network, and it has
> > no advantages over sending binary information.
> 
> Bloat also compresses well.

Sure...add a bunch of junk to get a better compression ratio. The binary 
format will still be smaller after compression, if you need to compress 
it. High compressability isn't really something to strive for...in fact, 
it could be a sign that your format contains too much redundancy.

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