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Quoting Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>:
> There seems to be a large group of programmers who
> mistakenly believe:
>
> 1. File size matters.
> 2. They can compress better than gzip.
This is easy to do. GZIP is massively crippled by having no information about
the structure of the file - it's just a string of bytes that it has to make
some assumptions about the probable structure of with regards to frequency
distributions that won't even apply very well to XML; it's trivial to write
something that compresses better, especially if you use gzip for what it's best
at (the CDATA) and handle the <> bits yourself.
> 3. Human legible/human editable data doesn't matter.
Indeed, we must never use image files, filesystems, or gzip - they'll never
take off :-)
> All three beliefs have been empirically proven false time and time
> again.
Chuckle!
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