Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.It supports four different types of values: byte strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries (associative arrays).Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries.While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities."@en }
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- Bencode abstract "Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.It supports four different types of values: byte strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries (associative arrays).Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries.While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities.".
- Q871923 abstract "Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.It supports four different types of values: byte strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries (associative arrays).Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries.While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities.".