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> > Depends on what language you’re using. It will be different for different
> > APIs. Is it more convenient to encode x,y as some sort of pair, or
> > separate? Or are you being LISPy and going for positions within lists
> > anyway with cadadr et al.?
> >
> 
> No, I meant that the data file itself will tend to have named fields,
> rather than arrays with unnamed heterogeneous elements like the current
> format
> For the agile languages the names will turn into hashes/dicts/whatever when
> vivified.

gschem files in sort of use named fields. Named fields use more resources to handle but accessing data on disk is done rather seldom and some delay is even expected so in this case efficiency of accessing data is less important.

Once read from disk it may however be useful to transform to something more efficient. Then drawing objects on screen it is for example very useful with a efficient view of the data for this purpose maybe in the form of a cache.

Then checking for clearance it may be useful to store the objects on copper layers in suitable data structures for this purpose, at least if there are many combinations to check.