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Date: | Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:31:24 -0800 |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] shortest way towards parsing .pcb files outside pcb |
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:20 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote: >> To the people who want a binary database format: I can see the >> attractions. Having the fastest possible parser could be a > > I did a project long ago that used a text file like the pcb-menu.res > file (yaml-like). It was stored on ascii but at one point we designed > a binary representation designed for fast loading and smaller disk > storage. The speedup was much greater than we expected (it was a > large commonly-used file). We had utilities to convert between ascii > and binary representations. > > So let's not rule out a binary *alternative* format too soon ;-) Reasonable. I'd make human-readable the default, to keep simple things as simple as possible. But I guess in principle there's no reason not to have both.
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