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Re:VRML by pclmulqdq on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:07AM (#31058397)
Text files are very hard to efficiently parse in parallel because there are so many variable-length and conditionally present fields. That necessarily leads to branches in your code which GPUs are not designed for.
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Re:VRML by network2592 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:33AM (#31058523)
It depends on the format of the text, the parser for that format, the language of the parser, and many other factors. Such a broad affirmative statement that text files are inefficient is tenuous at best.
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Re:VRML by danmur on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:33AM (#31058967)
We need some technology that turns text files into binary. To the startupmobile!
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Re:VRML by iostream24 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:38AM (#31059899)
Hmm sounds like a compiler
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Re:VRML by dotancohen on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:03AM (#31058868)
Then pad fields and require them, even if the value is Null/None/Nil, and the field names too.

  USERNAME:dotancohen\0\0\0\0\0\0
  FOOBAR\0\0:\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0
This might look ugly if you open it in Notepad, but so do XML and Org mode files. However an Emacs/VIM/VsCode plugin could make this seamless for the user.
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Re:VRML by coldacid on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:48PM (#31062686)
They might not look as pleasant as Markdown, but Org mode files still look good in a plain text editor like Notepad.
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