Re: binary file portability?

[eugeny gladkih <john@...>]

>>>>> "RK" == Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> writes:

 RK> Size, simplicity and performance.  It might be nice to have
 RK> a "blessed"  
 >> 
 >> what performance do you speak of? that's mostly a time of disk
 >> I/O. simplicity... it'll take a few lines of a code - maybe 50,
 >> maybe less. the real probles is only the size, the size of string
 >> literals only.

 RK> Making something that can read a generic format, especially when you're
 RK> doing with floating point numbers, is not fun.  Doing so it's fast is

you can store them in ASCII, like they are in the source.

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