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Post From: Open/Close for New Order Messages

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vbmithr - Posts: 204
Definitely yes! (The messages are shorter this way). It is definitely not easy to modify things with a binary encoding where fields must have an order… Since I'm actively developing, I don't care about backward compat. Maybe, for protocol evolution, a binary protocol that enforce fields order/padding is just not feasible. The more you edit (and want to keep backward compat), the more the structures becomes big and not space optimized… I'm really not so convinced about enforcing fields order since it is not convenient for gradual evolution.