Byte and char types

We're evaluating Hessian for use on embedded devices that connect over
wireless modems. Each message we pass contains multiple elements who's
value is a single character or number less than 255. We're curious as
to why there is no byte or char or short primitive types, when the idea
is to be a compact binary protocol. It may seem insignificant, but the
extra overhead of 3 or 4 bytes for each int or binary format value
becomes significant in volume.

Thanks
Received on Fri 16 Jun 2006 12:07:59 -0700