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Text-based formats are the best for repairability but not so efficient for structuring, querying and storing information. It’s a tradeoff, as always!
by harperlee 7y ago
Text-based formats are the best for repairability but not so efficient for structuring, querying and storing information. It’s a tradeoff, as always!
- networkimprov 7y agoA search index can be maintained in binary format; it can be rebuilt in the event of corruption.
- harperlee 7y agoThat’s not a good counterexample if that is what you attempted, for 2 reasons: - An index is redundant information but dropping it and recreating it is not “repairability” as in “I read and amend a text”. You compare apples to oranges. - What I wrote still applies to an index, so that’s orthogonal: a binary index will be more efficient but harder to repair than a text-based binary index.