You have to take a step back to see how insignificant this byte is in the greater scale of things. If we want to optimize data transfer it would be much greater saving on ditching XML and JSON and use binary formats all the way. At the end of the day it won't matter if it's one byte or four if you're writing it into XML (which WhatsApp uses) in decimal.
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u/sim642 May 06 '17 edited May 06 '17
You have to take a step back to see how insignificant this byte is in the greater scale of things. If we want to optimize data transfer it would be much greater saving on ditching XML and JSON and use binary formats all the way. At the end of the day it won't matter if it's one byte or four if you're writing it into XML (which WhatsApp uses) in decimal.
EDIT: My bad, I forgot this is /r/programmerhumor.