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

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