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@ -534,6 +534,15 @@ There are many drawbacks to this framing technique:
2. It is resource-intensive to parse.
3. It is complex to parse safely [#]_ [#]_ [#]_ [#]_.
A previous revision of this specification allowed requesting one or more contiguous sequences from one or more shares.
This *superficially* mirrored the Foolscap based interface somewhat closely.
The interface was simplified to this version because this version is all that is required to let clients retrieve any desired information.
It only requires that the client issue multiple requests.
This can be done with pipelining or parallel requests to avoid an additional latency penalty.
In the future,
if there are performance goals,
benchmarks can demonstrate whether they are achieved by a more complicated interface or some other change.
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