https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93104

--- Comment #6 from MM <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Maxim Monastirsky from comment #4)
> (In reply to Olivier Hallot from comment #0)

> > * does not need to be compliant with any other standard,
> > * does not need to care about interoperability,
> So what's the point of such format if it creates vendor lock-in? We already
> had once binary formats in StarOffice/OOo days, and we dropped them, because
> of this. (Not to mention that XML format is easy to fix by hand if it gets
> some corruption.)

I agree with that. Libreoffice should be about open formats, not closing them
off with another set of binaries that no other programs can read or will
support.

> > * will load and save much faster,
> See above. You can't claim such thing without proving it. The XML parsing
> overhead is not so high. And after all it depends on implementation. I'm
> sure that a filter of a binary format could be horribly slow, if poorly
> implemented.

>From what i've read, reading excel binary is a bit faster than xml, but slower
when writing.

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