I'm not sure the author knows much about binary formats. Binary formats are binary for a reason. Speed of interpretation is one reason. Usage of memory is anot

I'm not sure the author knows much about binary formats. Binary formats are binary for a reason. Speed of interpretation is one reason. Usage of memory is another reason. Directly mapping it and using it, is another reason. Binary formats can make assumptions about system memory page size. They can store internal offsets to make incremental reading faster. None of this is offered by text formats. Also, the ability to modify text formats is completely wrong. Nothing can be changed if we introduce checksums inside text formats. Also if we digitally sign a format, then nothing can be changed despite the fact that it's a text format. Also, comparing CSV files to internal database binary format? It's like comparing a book cover to the ERP system of a library. Meaning, it's comparing two completely different things.