[odf-discuss] News on MS pluggin

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 15 October 2006 12:16, Alex Hudson wrote:
> I'm afraid I still don't believe that they convert XML to binary (other
> than, obviously, loading it into memory) - do you have any source which
> specifically states that? For one thing, if they did that, the XML could
> _never_ even touch the binary for loading speed, which we know is very
> important to Microsoft.

After watching some reverse engineering attempts I know that the bin-format is 
basically a memory dump.  It tends to contain random bytes that are not 
relevant for the current file, for example.
As a programmer I see no reason why loading into that big blob of memory would 
be slower then doing proper loading into the internal memory structures. 
Since they are practically the same thing.

I know a thing or two about word processor internals, and the loading of the 
document into mem is just a small part of the startup time.
In the end I don't see any of the problems you see with the points marbux 
made. In fact, I think the best thing for Ms actually is to use an 
intermediate binary format (in memory) in order to avoid regressions.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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