Request for clarification of how the 8C tag interacts with lists
JobLeonard opened this issue · 2 comments
Say I have a nested object that for some reason contains the strings "parallelepiped" and "therizinosaurus" many times, and I know this. Which of the two following ways of encoding an 8C tagged list is correct?
8C 90 <utf8 "parallelepiped"> 00 <utf8 "therizinosaurus"> 00 91
90 8C <utf8 "parallelepiped"> 00 8C <utf8 "therizinosaurus"> 00 91
(I'm pretending #12 doesn't exist and that 8C-tagged strings are zero-terminated, will update example once that issue is resolved)
My guess is that they are both correct, but the former only adds the strings to the LRU without encoding a list into the object, while the latter encodes a list of strings that also get added to the LRU. Whatever the case, it might be good to be explicit about it in the docs somewhere.
My guess is that they are both correct, but the former only adds the strings to the LRU without encoding a list into the object, while the latter encodes a list of strings that also get added to the LRU. Whatever the case, it might be good to be explicit about it in the docs somewhere.
That is correct.
Overall, 8C can be applied to any string encoding.
Even if it's an 81 string, we could specify that the string has to be moved to the top of the LRU (but i still consider this TBD)
Also, related to #14