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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.