[OSC_dev] OSC Questions regarding Protocol

[Stephen Sinclair]

> Note that on-the-fly compression is built into web standards
> and the upcoming binary XML standards to address this
> efficiency issue . I can imagine when this matures picking a
> recommendation or even a standard for OSC along these lines.

I've often wondered how much could be achieved by simply running an
OSC TCP stream through gzip or something similar.  It would
automatically do the job of replacing re-occurring paths with index
numbers, with a trade-off in CPU usage of course.

Never got around to trying the idea..

Steve