TPCServer and xdrlib

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 
>  Did you consider gzipping your XML (or YAML) packets ? Would the
> transfer time be acceptable in this case ?

That would add even more to the overhead of transcoding the 
transportlayer. Switching from XMLRPC to a json-based protocol reduced 
in a project of mine reduced the overhead 10-20fold - mainly because of 
reduced size and parsing efforts.

Diez