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know if a serialized piece of Arkworks structure has been compressed #818
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Compression is very data specific, so it's hard to answer this question in full generality without knowing what comprises your struct.
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Afaik, you should always compress for network wire formats, because compression's extra CPU time costs less than the extra network bytes, and blockchains magnify this. In particular, I'd expect the projective to affine conversions cost more, making batch_normalize more significant. It's different when you're only storing cached data locally, well then maybe uncompressed and/or unvalidated makes sense. In principle, one could even serialize in projective locally, but in general projective serialization is extremely dangerous. |
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i couldn't find anything related in the issue tracker, so here i am 😇
let's say i have the following piece of code
is it possible, on the other end of the protocol, to deserialize the bytes without passing around the same
compress: Compress
, e.g. maybe the information about compression is inside the bytes or something?i.e. i'm wondering if something like the following is possible
thanks and cheers 🥳 👋
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