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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Genuine question, how many applications are bottlenecked by the size of text files? I understand your analogy, but even a doubling in size of all your utf-8 encoded files would likely be dwarfed by all the other binary data on your machine, right?