Talk:Text To Byte Conversion

These two functions are going to be very slow and they have a large memory footprint. This is what llBase64ToInteger and llIntegerToBase64 are good for. Suppose it's time I post some of the new functions to the Combined Library. -- Strife Onizuka 09:58, 3 January 2008 (PST)

Take a look here Combined Library#Encoding -- Strife Onizuka 10:40, 3 January 2008 (PST)

Thanks. I changed the code to use the llBase64ToInteger and llIntegerToBase64 methods. It is a lot smaller and easier to manage now. --Dedric Mauriac 01:36, 5 January 2008 (PST)

Looks good, still a few spots that could be optimized. I should point out that the resulting list will require about 9 to 10 times more memory then the string (which is why my functions work with base64, only a 4/3's expansion). A 2k strings would result in a list that would eat all the memory, even a 1k string would be dangerous, not good. This is why I haven't made a function that does byte to list myself (the only reason I have base64&hex <-> dword-list functions is so I can handle encryption keys expressed as lists). -- Strife Onizuka 02:00, 5 January 2008 (PST)

Yes, that was my next step to work with blocks of the base64 string rather than convert the whole thing back and forth to a list. I'm still having a few problems with the conversion in that an extra byte of 0 is added onto the end depending on the length of the string. It's messing with my encryption. --Dedric Mauriac 02:13, 5 January 2008 (PST)