It causes an amount of CPU usage that's discernible if one is actively looking at a system monitor applet at the time, so it might cause perf issues on an extremely old system, but I'm writing this on midrange 2005 hardware (albeit, with added RAM) without maxing anything out, so it's clearly not a very big deal.

The more likely compatibility problem someone could run into is a tiny screen (say, on a mobile device) that can't show the textarea and the preview at the same time. But I suspect that's unavoidable, and they can always scroll.

Exactly what encoding scheme that is, is an exercise for you, the geeks like me! :)

I can, however, reveal my results so far in the only benchmark that could possibly matter to anyone: With a spot of overclocking, a Core i7 920 is about 5.7 times as fast for distributed.net's OGR calculator than was my old 2-core Athlon. Hence, a sudden leap in my OGR stats.

(Do feel free to make my stats go nuts by all telling dnetc.exe, if you run it, that your e-mail address is dan@dansdata.com!)

No new posts from Dan for a few days is not entirely unusual, but no new TWEETS from Dan makes me wonder if there's been some kind of accident.

Nah, I'm sure he's just busy assembling his new PC.

I'm looking forwards to reading all about it, as soon as he's managed to put it all together. (I'm sure it's just a matter of minutes while he manages to figure out why the sata cable is two cm too short, how to fit an metric screw in a UNC hole, and how to silence the fans without overheating the graphics card.)

436F6D6D656E74207370616D2100

Or, for the ham radio enthusiasts out there:

-- --- .-. . -.-. --- -- -- . -. - ... .--. .- --

(Gee, the preview works really well. I was able to spot and correct errors straight away. Nice.)

And just for good measure :
01000111011001010111010000100000011011110110
01100110011001100001001001110010000001101101
01111001001000000110110001100001011101110110
1110001000010000110100001010

Well this seems to work reasonably. After that mangled posting I made a few of days ago, I for one appreciate the ability to fix the postings I put up once every 4 years.

P.S. Thanks Dan!