On 22 Aug 2001, Johan Danielsson wrote:

# Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> writes:
#
# > 	the approach I like the best is the openbsd one, with a bit of clever
# > 	backward compat code in last(1) and other tools.  any comments?
#
# Are there good reasons for keeping a binary format?

Well, fixed-length records are easier to deal with -- having to deal
with RLL or terminated strings just adds overhead.  Okay, it's minimal,
given the speeds of today's machines, but the availibility of processing
power &c. does not justify such an approach (program for efficiency,
don't assume that the hardware will take up the slack), especially
considering we do not just run on today's machines.

# /Johan

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