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Comment by eadmund

2 days ago

No worries! ASN.1 is a bit weird because there’s a textual version and then a bunch of serialisations.

I think that human-readable is more important than space-efficient. At some point an engineer is going to be looking at bytes in a dump or debugger, and it sure is nice to be able to quickly know what they are.

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