binary data files

[AthanasiosTom Zougas]

In article <12546 at ut-emx.UUCP> nather at ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>.... Believe me, ascii is better:
>    ...
>Bad things [WRT ascii data file]:
>
>1. Files take a bit longer to read in
               ^^^^^
Have you ever tried reading/writing a 1,000,000 real numbers using
ascii instead of binary? I changed an engineering analysis program
from being intolerably SSSLLLOOOWWW to exceedingly fast by using
binary data files instead of ascii. My boss was happy :-)

Tom.

p.s. This was on a microcomputer, name witheld to protect my
innocence.

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