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From: Christopher Avans <parka@cdc.net>
>[ObCircle]On the on going ASCII versus Binary
>
>This is more then a matter of opinion. ASCII is not the way to go. You
>will lose alot of speed in going all ASCII. And if you do alot fancy work
>and have your mud load an ASCII file as a shared libary you lose less
>speed but also gain alot RAM. Binary are hard to work with, but there is
>alot of utilities to work with them. One of whoch coms with circle.
The 2.0 version of my ascii pfiles system load/save faster than binary. Try
it.
I'm looking at the binary pfiles utilities in pl14 and I'm not seeing "alot of
utilities". The only one I see that isn't obsolete with ascii pfiles is
autowiz, which could easily be converted or replaced with a simple script.
Sam
opinion = fact, for sufficiently loose definitions of fact
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