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docs: Maximum size of pencode values

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Alex Willmer 2018-03-12 19:39:34 +00:00 committed by David Wilson
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@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ As with Execnet it includes its own serialization - pencode_ supports
pencode lacks support for arbitrary classes. Byte strings require special
treatment if they contain non-ascii characters. Some primitive types
(e.g. ``complex``), but adding support would be trivial.
(e.g. ``complex``) are not handled. This would be straightforwar to address.
Values are length-prefixed with a 32 bit unsigned integer, meaning values
are limited to 4 billion bytes or items in length.
design is reminiscent of Mitogen in places (Tunnel is practically identical to
Mitogen's Stream), and closer to Execnet elsewhere (lack of uniformity,