Can XML-RPC performance be improved?

[Steve Holden]

gregarican wrote:
> Skip wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't know about the OP, but in my case it was a drop-dead simple
>>cross-language RPC protocol.
> 
> 
> Exactly. RPC implementations. Typically these are a quick "do this with
> this" sent from the client, with a brief "okay, I did that, here's the
> result" back from the server. Shovelling huge amounts of data using any
> XML encapsulation leads to a certain code smell at the very least.
> 
Especially when people try to pass large amounts of free text (like 
Python scripts) as attribute values ;-)

regards
  Steve
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