How do you represent large binaries in your system

[timuckun]

You show data being represented as code including some being represented as functions. I imagine that in most cases the data will be a binary so would that be just base64 encoded strings with a couple of lines of code wrapped around it? For example in my line of work we deal with large images so would I be representing a 3 gigabyte image as a giant string?

[dborzov]

thanks for the question!

I don't quite follow why we need to store binary data as a base64-encoded string. The paper deliberately does not talk about what sort of a sandboxed runtime environment we should use for kolmoblocks, as its a subject of further research. But its probably a good idea to make sure its optimized for the task at hand. So its probably going to be compiled VM instructions (think Webassembly) not a dynamic language script (think Javascript).

Let's say we adopt the format for x86 linux executables as the kolmoblock runtime environment. In that scenario, you can embed binary data into the executable and it will be stored as binary data, not a string.