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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, DJ Delorie wrote: > 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). gEDA files are read - when opening a file - when loading a symbol/footprint from the library - when importing a schematic into PCB - when processing a file with a command-line tool and written - when saving a file - when auto-saving None of these operations are time-critical. The only one of these operations for which I ever experienced significant lag was importing a schematic into PCB, and even then, the time spent loading the schematic files was neglegible (yes, I did perform benchmarks).
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