From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-27 14:29:48
Hughes, James wrote:
> Thanks for that comment on sizes Robert - will bring that to the table
> when we next talk about serialisation here!!!!
Just to clarify.
Suppose you have an archive with a lot 4 byte integers whose values
contain small numbers - 1 or two digits. The text archive would
represent this as:
1 24 14 2 7 ...
averaging 3 bytes for integer
while the native binary archive would represent the values as
4 bytes per integer.
I don't remember about floating point format off hand.
So... whether the text or binary is larger or smaller would
depend on the specific case. I doubt that there is a huge
difference either way.
Robert Ramey