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On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:29 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>=20
>> . a binary file might be smaller, but that does not matter much
>=20
> I wrote an app that used a tree-like data file for storage.  It
> supported both ascii and binary formats.  Not only was the binary
> format significantly smaller, but loaded 10x faster.  Parsing text
> files and adapting to the incoming data is more expensive than you
> think.

But for gEDA, it=92s a small overhead relative to everything else, =
especially if it allows you to use old-fashioned kilobyte tools rather =
than trendy megabyte tools for processing.

>=20
>> . text files are better provided for by version systems (e.g. git)
>=20
> I thought git dealt with blobs; in which case binary vs text is
> irrelevent unless you want to run "diff=94.

But, at least for me, =93diff=94 is pretty common on schematics. It=92s =
easy to spot attribute and symbol changes in a diff. Diff is also part =
of my layout vs schematic checks using Osmond PCB.

>=20

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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