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[thrownaway2424]

zlib-compressed XML cannot hold a candle to protocol buffers in the department of space efficiency.

[nextweek2 → thrownaway2424]

Indeed, its the wrong tool for the job. EXI compressions would be better.

http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/

http://exificient.sourceforge.net/?id=performance

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0322.html