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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by ZenoArrow on Sunday May 08, 2016 @11:48AM (#11654492)
It doesn't, but it gets around the extra overhead you get with the added metadata.

OO on its own is slower to parse than plain text, but binary is faster to parse than plain text. If you combine the both can you get the best of both words, something that's both reliable and fast.

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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by eru on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:39AM (#11659313)
I see that binary might be interesting. But why add OO to the mix? There are other worlds to mix the best from.

As one silly example, you can consider Google's protocol buffers. They are not particularly OO-y. (I have great sympathies for functional languages, but I don't think they offer too much insight into how to format your data files. And neither does OO?)

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