Re: Preferences file in Tiger
Re: Preferences file in Tiger
- Subject: Re: Preferences file in Tiger
- From: Todd Blanchard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 19:45:39 -0700
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but apparently not vi friendly I gather.
On May 3, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Ali Ozer wrote:
How is "binary" plist different from "classic" plist (which I prefer
and seemed about as small as you could make it, yet remained vi
friendly)?
The old plist format was indeed pretty compact. However, it did not
store the new data types that were added in Mac OS X --- boolean,
date, and number. Binary plists (like the XML plists) support these.
In addition, binary plists have can optimize storage in several ways,
not just by not having to store things in a human readable fashion,
but also by being able to collapse common subtrees, for instance.
This means binary plists are often smaller and faster to parse than
both the XML and even the classic plist format.
Ali
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