On 12 Aug 2008, at 6:42 pm, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
2. NSKeyedArchiver can only store certain strings (tested in 10.4.11), which makes it absolutely unusable for the storage of strings if the possible values are not known in advance.
Eh? That's just not true. Can you provide an example of a string that it can't store? Anything that's NSCoding compliant can be stored, and NSString is. I'm sure if it weren't someone would have raised merry hell about it before now. Something's fishy...
As for file sizes, is that really all that relevant these days? Archives don't store huge amount of overhead compared to the data itself - saving a few bytes here and there is not worth the pain of losing the convenience of keyed archiving. Non-keyed archiving produces inherently very fragile file formats, which are a lot of work to maintain. Keyed archiving on the other hand, makes handling format changes trivial.
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