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diff --git a/python/rencode/README b/python/rencode/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..459886ec92d11 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/rencode/README @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The rencode module is similar to bencode from the BitTorrent project. +For complex, heterogeneous data structures with many small elements, +r-encodings take up significantly less space than b-encodings. + +This version of rencode is a complete rewrite in Cython to attempt to +increase the performance over the pure Python module written by Petru +Paler, Connelly Barnes et al. |