Re: Maintaining NodeID sanity

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:26:30PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Branko Cibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> > * Base64 conversion is faster than itoa (no division); more natural
> > for marshaling integers
>
> Greg's not talking about the conversion, he's talking about
> comparisons after you've already done the conversion.

I'm hoping there isn't ANY conversion. "Conversion" implies that you have
two different representations for the same concept. And I don't see any
rational reason to make these "different", other than "because we can".

-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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