Nick Sabalausky: > I often wonder how much faster and more > memory-efficient things like linux and the web could have been if they > weren't so big on sticking damn near everything into "convenient" text > formats.
Maybe not much, because today textual files can be compressed and decomperssed on the fly. CPUs are now fast enough that even with compression the I/O is usually the bottleneck anyway. Bye, bearophile
