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Re: [xmpp] Fwd: Fwd: Use of namespace in RFC 3920



On Thu Sep 24 16:41:50 2009, Jack Moffitt wrote:
If we all agree on a default namespace, this is not required, and is a
huge gain in efficiency.  Now XMPP servers don't even have to parse
stanzas.  They can simply regex out the to/from attributes and pass
the stanza on as a bag of bytes.

Not that you can actually do quite that, but it's certainly true you can get a lot closer to lexing than parsing, and remove potentially all the reserialization.

Dave.
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