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Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by 1amzave on Friday April 11, 2014 @06:27PM (#7575967)
> When the serialization format matches the in-memory format, you can mmap directly into a struct, which is fast and convenient.

...and a non-starter if you ever have data interchange between differing types of machines.

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