The Rule of Silence (2006)

Re:The Rule of Silence (2006) by dagw on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:52AM (#13166402)

Parsing structured text is slow and inefficient. Also reading out just one part of a data structure stored as text often requires either walking through the file character by character or first slurping the whole thing into memory.

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Re:The Rule of Silence (2006) by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:58AM (#13166432)

...But when your system crashes, having all that data in an easily accessible manner (regardless of what tools you have on hand) is a major win.

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Re:The Rule of Silence (2006) by michrassena on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:04AM (#13167260)

Let's not forget that when your system crashes, all of these easy-to-read text files are actually stored in a binary format, sometimes scattered in pieces, and require special tools to extract.

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Re:The Rule of Silence (2006) by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:21PM (#13169104)

True, but they're less fragile: even if the text is garbled, you might be able to get some information out of it.

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